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RECEPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of receiving
Synonyms:
receipt; reception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):
acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)
Derivation:
receive (get something; come into possession of)
receptionist (a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(American football) the act of catching a pass in football
Example:
the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):
catch; grab; snap; snatch (the act of catching an object with the hands)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):
broadcasting (taking part in a radio or tv program)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reception"):
detection; signal detection (the detection that a signal is being received)
demodulation ((electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The manner in which something is greeted
Example:
she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors
Synonyms:
reception; response
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):
greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))
Derivation:
receptionist (a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A formal party of people; as after a wedding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):
party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)
Meronyms (parts of "reception"):
reception line (a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reception"):
at home (a reception held in your own home)
levee (a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court))
tea (a reception or party at which tea is served)
wedding reception (a reception for wedding guests held after the wedding)
Derivation:
receive (have or give a reception)
Context examples:
Interrupt the normal function of; hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; stop from happening or developing; interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; impede the movement of.
(Block, NCI Thesaurus)
Hence, mechanisms must exist for localizing and maintaining a precise concentration of growth factor receptors at the site of signal reception.
(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
For example, they’re essential for odor detection in the nose and light reception in the eye.
(Protein critical to cilia development, NIH)
Surgical preparation of the alveolar ridges, commonly used for the reception of dentures.
(Alveoloplasty, NCI Thesaurus)
"I say, this is a pretty warm reception for a poor lone wolf from the Arctic," the master said, while White Fang calmed down under his caressing hand.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We have been conducing a chemical experiment indoors which has left our little room hardly fit for the reception of so distinguished a visitor.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Our review, says Rivest, emphasizes that behavior is the outcome of a sensory pathway that includes the production of information, transmission of that information through the environment, reception of the information by an organism, and then a response—what the organism does with the information.
(Study considers sensory impacts of environmental change on ocean species, National Science Foundation)
There was an offensive tone in it, perhaps, and yet in the main it struck me as mere riotous outcry, the noisy reception of one who amused and interested them, rather than of one they disliked or despised.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She treats me like a visitor, thought I. I little expected such a reception; I anticipated only coldness and stiffness: this is not like what I have heard of the treatment of governesses; but I must not exult too soon.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
