receive

Definition of receive

Verbs

get something; come into possession of

"receive payment"

"receive a gift"

"receive letters from the front"

Synonyms:: have; accept, take
receive willingly something given or offered

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; take in, take up
accept; fuel
take in fuel, as of a ship; hustle
get by trying hard; accept
receive (a report) officially, as from a committee; fence
receive stolen goods; graduate
receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; inherit
receive by genetic transmission

Type of:: acquire, get
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

receive a specified treatment (abstract)

"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

"His movie received a good review"

Synonyms:: find, get, incur, obtain; acquire
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

Types:: take
ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial

Type of:: change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature

register (perceptual input)

Synonyms:: pick up

Types:: hear
receive a communication from someone

Type of:: comprehend, perceive
to become aware of through the senses

go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

"receive injuries"

Synonyms:: experience, get, have

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; get, have, suffer, sustain
undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); break down, collapse
collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack; cramp
suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle; break up, collapse, crack, crack up, crock up
suffer a nervous breakdown; take
experience or feel or submit to; horripilate
have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps

Type of:: undergo
pass through

express willingness to have in one's home or environs

"The community warmly received the refugees"

Synonyms:: invite, take in

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; welcome
receive someone, as into one's house; absorb
assimilate or take in; see
receive as a specified guest; assume
take up someone's soul into heaven; induct
admit as a member

accept as true or valid

"He received Christ"

Type of:: accept
consider or hold as true

bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

Synonyms:: welcome

Antonyms:: say farewell
say good-bye or bid farewell

Type of:: greet, recognise, recognize
express greetings upon meeting someone

convert into sounds or pictures

"receive the incoming radio signals"

Type of:: convert
change the nature, purpose, or function of something

experience as a reaction

Synonyms:: encounter, meet

Type of:: experience, have
undergo

have or give a reception

Type of:: celebrate, fete
have a celebration

receive as a retribution or punishment

Synonyms:: get; catch
suffer from the receipt of

partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

Type of:: partake, touch
consume

regard favorably or with disapproval

"Her new collection of poems was not well received"

Type of:: consider, reckon, regard, see, view
deem to be

Vocabulary Lists for receive

monkey jacket
spouter
inion
tomahawk
river horse

positive feedback
run-on
motivate
speller
creatively

inscribe
ration
harvest
ensconce
pasture

newspeak
prole
Big Brother
labour camp
doublethink

premeditate
symbolising
abase
discern
endue

estranged
scaffold
gesticulate
pillory
stigma

Macbeth
thane
weird sister
hautboy
Duncan

piracy
pirate
draw and quarter
automatic firearm
William Kidd

Hale
German ivy
matt
sleigh
flats

fascinate
exaggerate
advertise
criticize
basically

Words that contain receive

continuous receiver watch

Earth-received time

heterodyne receiver

Received Pronunciation

receiver-creditor relation

satellite receiver

superheterodyne receiver

telephone receiver

television receiver

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