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RECEIVE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into sounds or pictures

Example:

receive the incoming radio signals

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

receiver (set that receives radio or tv signals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Receive a specified treatment (abstract)

Example:

I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions

Synonyms:

find; get; incur; obtain; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "receive"):

take (ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Regard favorably or with disapproval

Example:

Her new collection of poems was not well received

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)

receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Accept as true or valid

Example:

He received Christ

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)

receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

Synonyms:

receive; welcome

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

partake; touch (consume)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Express willingness to have in one's home or environs

Example:

The community warmly received the refugees

Synonyms:

invite; receive; take in

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "receive"):

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot receive Sue

Derivation:

receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Register (perceptual input)

Example:

pick up a signal

Synonyms:

pick up; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "receive"):

hear (receive a communication from someone)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They receive the information to them

Derivation:

receiver (set that receives radio or tv signals)

receptive (of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system)

receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

Example:

have a feeling

Synonyms:

experience; get; have; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

undergo (pass through)

"Receive" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "receive"):

get; have; suffer; sustain (undergo (as of injuries and illnesses))

take (experience or feel or submit to)

horripilate (have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 10

Meaning:

Receive as a retribution or punishment

Example:

He got 5 years in prison

Synonyms:

get; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Verb group:

catch; get (suffer from the receipt of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 11

Meaning:

Get something; come into possession of

Example:

receive letters from the front

Synonyms:

have; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Verb group:

accept; have; take (receive willingly something given or offered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "receive"):

take in; take up (accept)

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence examples:

The banks receive the check

They receive more bread

They receive the money

Derivation:

receiver (a person who receives something)

reception (the act of receiving)

recipient (a person who receives something)

Sense 12

Meaning:

Have or give a reception

Example:

The lady is receiving Sunday morning

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reception (a formal party of people; as after a wedding)

Sense 13

Meaning:

Experience as a reaction

Example:

My proposal met with much opposition

Synonyms:

encounter; meet; receive

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):

experience; have (undergo)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)

receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The French Ambassador has received his papers to-night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All study participants received a seasonal influenza vaccine.

(Disrupting the gut microbiome may affect some immune responses to flu vaccination, National Institutes of Health)

This lesson, she very much feared, they would receive only from herself; she had little hope of Mr. Knightley, none of Mr. Weston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was a very important study launched in 1998 for which we have not yet received the results.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

He received the word as if it had a familiar ring, though he pondered it thoughtfully.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A degree of unexpected cordiality, however, in the welcome she received, did her good.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The children in this study received low-volume red cell transfusions.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We shall be with you within an hour of receiving it, and we shall then very soon get to the bottom of the business.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knocked, but received no answer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)