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RECEIVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they receive ... he / she / it receives
Past simple: received
Past participle: received
-ing form: receiving
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:
Hypernyms (to "receive" is one way to...):
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:
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:
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)
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)
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