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.

Compare receive with other words:

betake vs. receive

receive vs. received

receive vs. redeem

achieve vs. receive

receive vs. seek

receive vs. sustain

receive vs. retrieve

misreceive vs. receive

entertake vs. receive

receive vs. resetter

hospitate vs. receive

receive vs. underget

receive vs. suscipient

receive vs. recipience

attain vs. receive

receive vs. recite

deceive vs. receive

receive vs. send

receive vs. welcome

receive vs. zero

administer vs. receive

approve vs. receive

believe vs. receive

collect vs. receive

arrive vs. receive

accomplish vs. receive

acquire vs. receive

receive vs. wild

demonstration vs. receive

donee vs. receive

counterchange vs. receive

fetch vs. receive

obtain vs. receive

receive vs. responsive

receive vs. vouchsafe

customer vs. receive

receive vs. teller

receive vs. undergraduate

outpatient vs. receive

receive vs. transmit

absorb vs. receive

capacity vs. receive

receive vs. serve

bandy vs. receive

data vs. receive

operation vs. receive

receive vs. recipient

receive vs. receptacle

receive vs. receptive

receive vs. receiver

receivable vs. receive

receive vs. understand

receive vs. service

mind vs. receive

back vs. receive

receive vs. suffer

hit vs. receive

host vs. receive

bayonet vs. receive

glorious vs. receive

receive vs. taker

fang vs. receive

earn vs. receive

cad vs. receive

inherit vs. receive

admit vs. receive

receipt vs. receive

receive vs. reception

borrow vs. receive

net vs. receive

receive vs. terminal

cop vs. receive

derive vs. receive

receive vs. revenue

receive vs. sit

get vs. receive

feel vs. receive

catch vs. receive

bid vs. receive

read vs. receive

give vs. receive

board vs. receive

receive vs. take

cathead vs. receive

accept vs. receive

abandonment vs. receive