What's the difference between receipt and recipient?

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.

Recipient


Definition:

  • (n.) A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
  • (a.) Receiving; receptive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
  • (4) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
  • (5) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (6) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
  • (7) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
  • (8) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (9) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
  • (10) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
  • (11) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
  • (12) The immunogenicity of the polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine was studied in renal allograft recipients and dialysis patients.
  • (13) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
  • (14) Our results indicate that in recipients of bioprosthetic valves, careful follow-up with closer surveillance of valve and cardiac function and earlier prosthetic replacement might contribute to reducing the risk of reoperation.
  • (15) Last year, statistics showed that 95% of recipients felt more confident after getting a hearing dog.
  • (16) The pattern of innervation following transplantation indicates that, in repopulating dopamine-deficient cortical areas of recipient weaver mutants, graft-derived dopamine fibres show a preference for those layers which are normally invested by dopamine afferents.
  • (17) Psychological risk factors predicted donor candidates' decisions to participate and their compliance but were not predictive (within the group that completed a cycle) of donor satisfaction as follow-up or recipient pregnancy.
  • (18) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
  • (19) This was true in separate experiments, involving two mammary carcinomata and a 3-methylcholanthrene induced sarcoma, wherein the period of tumour growth in the parent line donor and F(1) hybrid recipient was varied.
  • (20) The potentiated effects are reduced if the recipients are given nonadherent spleen cells.