What's the difference between give and receive?

Give


Definition:

  • (n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
  • (n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
  • (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
  • (n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
  • (n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
  • (n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  • (n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
  • (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
  • (n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • (n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • (n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
  • (n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.
  • (n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
  • (v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.
  • (v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
  • (v. i.) To become soft or moist.
  • (v. i.) To move; to recede.
  • (v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
  • (v. i.) To have a misgiving.
  • (v. i.) To open; to lead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
  • (16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
  • (17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
  • (18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

Receive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
  • (v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
  • (v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
  • (v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
  • (v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
  • (v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
  • (v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
  • (v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.
  • (v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
  • (v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
  • (2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (5) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
  • (6) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
  • (7) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
  • (10) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
  • (11) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (12) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (13) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (14) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
  • (16) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (17) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
  • (18) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (19) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
  • (20) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.