What's the difference between receipt and receptacle?

Receipt


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of receiving; reception.
  • (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
  • (n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.
  • (n.) Place of receiving.
  • (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.
  • (n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
  • (n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
  • (n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
  • (v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
  • (v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
  • (v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (2) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
  • (3) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (4) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (5) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (6) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
  • (7) In addition, we found that maternal receipt of magnesium sulfate was associated with diminished risk of GMH-IVH even in those babies born to mothers who apparently did not have preeclampsia.
  • (8) The mean time from initiation of surgery to the surgeon's receipt of the frozen section diagnosis was 0.9 hours.
  • (9) The survey results and the fact that 25% of the stores made changes after receipt of a letter indicate that occupational therapists can be effective advocates for accessibility and thus provide a vital link to productive living for persons in wheelchairs.
  • (10) The first minister insisted that Scotland had a vibrant economy, saying overall tax receipts including North Sea oil were £400 per head higher from Scotland in 2013-14 than the UK average.
  • (11) "When you have 54% of students in receipt of EMA, clearly that is a very widely framed benefit.
  • (12) Yet figures show that of the students graduating last year, there were 10,670 who had been in receipt of free school meals.
  • (13) It is possible in the UK to carry out a phased approach to drug development that is designed to assist in the selection of a candidate drug for development from a series of compounds; minimize the amount of animal work (toxicological and metabolic) necessary to permit early evaluation in man; introduce a more rational basis for decision making by setting criteria that must be satisfied before entry can be made into the next phase of development; obtain safety, pharmacokinetic, and possibly dynamic data in man within about 16 months of receipt of the compound.
  • (14) Receipt of large amounts of anti-HBS may be associated with an increased incidence of HB events.
  • (15) Case and noncase infants were similar with respect to other complications and to receipt of medications and parenteral nutrition.
  • (16) The method was able to determine subpopulations of individual cells that secreted antibody in less than fifteen hours after receipt of a conventional cell suspension.
  • (17) The procedure is fast enough (21 min from receipt of blood to reporting value) to be used for emergency determinations.
  • (18) What I've been told is that the Electoral Commission in 2009 looked at this exhaustively – as far as the receipt of that money by the Liberal Democrats from one of his companies.
  • (19) These receipts, known as "running cash notes", were made out in the name of the depositor and promised to pay him on demand.
  • (20) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.

Receptacle


Definition:

  • (n.) That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
  • (n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
  • (n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
  • (n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
  • (n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
  • (2) Blood collection for culture purposes must preferably involve alcohol as an antiseptic for cleaning donor skin or suitable receptacles.
  • (3) This study identified potential areas for chemical leakage, such as refuel receptacles, hydraulic reservoirs, hydraulic motors, doors, ramps, engines, and more.
  • (4) Upon removal of the DA-releasing system from the receptacle, rotational behaviour increased within 2 weeks and approached preimplant control values 4 weeks later.
  • (5) When bladder substitution is required, a low pressure receptacle and an antireflux valve with low resistance to flow is essential for preservation of the upper urinary tract.
  • (6) For environmental health services the percentage availability was 30-45% for reticulated water in the home; 18-29% for an inside flush toilet; and 48-62% for possession of a personal refuse receptacle.
  • (7) Removal of achenes from fruits and growing the receptacles without auxin resulted in the time-dependent accumulation of 52,000 Mr polypeptide.
  • (8) Second, after each meal, the client was provided with an apron and a glove and asked to pick up trash in the area and deposit the trash in an appropriate receptacle.
  • (9) Such areas included the back table and the unsterile suction receptacle.
  • (10) The treatment allowed complete seating of the abutment copings despite the divergence of the roots because the attachment-receptacle portions slide together during cementation.
  • (11) Areas of potential contamination of the surgical wound in the conventional operating rooms include the back table, the unsterile suction receptacle, and the lack of a positive pressure relationship between the operating room and adjacent areas.
  • (12) The first time it was called into service by the athlete's defence team this week, the green plastic receptacle was undoubtedly something of a novelty.
  • (13) The seminal receptacle or spermatheca of Portunus sanguinolentus consists of two parts--an anterior glandular and a posterior chitinous part.
  • (14) Only two were able to open the receptacles, whereas all 50 of a group of adults and teenagers similarly tested were able to open all of the containers.
  • (15) He is no longer the politician who was forced to end illegitimate white rule because of mass protest and international condemnation but, according to the Sunday Telegraph, "the man who legislated himself out of power"; no longer history's receptacle but its master.
  • (16) The citrate buffer is placed in the ileal loop receptacle at the beginning of each urine collection period.
  • (17) The dark cell is considered to be a receptacle for the disposal of otoconia.
  • (18) The rats ate from receptacles containing salty food and a contiguous tone produced by speakers under the food followed by lithium chloride injections.
  • (19) aegypti population seems to be the infested-receptacle index.An attempt was made to estimate the rate of dispersal of Ae.
  • (20) Verdict No receptacle, had to rush round house looking for one.