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RECEIVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely accepted as true or worthy
Example:
Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise
Classified under:
Similar:
conventional (following accepted customs and proprieties)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
Example:
received standard English is sometimes called the King's English
Synonyms:
received; standard
Classified under:
Similar:
acceptable (judged to be in conformity with approved usage)
classical (of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb receive
Context examples:
A population of lymphocytes from the blood of a donor and administered to a patient who has already received a stem cell transplant from the same donor (Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation).
(Donor Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
Vaccines that the patient received within four weeks prior to the current vaccine administration date being reported.
(Other Vaccinations Given within Four Weeks, NCI Thesaurus)
I only wonder John could think of it; he could not have received my last.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life; and was this his first crime?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He then saw Mr. Crawford, and received his account.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A place where drugs are received from manufacturer and stored for future shipment to other sites.
(Pharmacy Distribution Center, NCI Thesaurus)
A small p-value usually means that the difference between groups is not due to chance alone, but is due to some other factor, such as a treatment one of the groups received.
(P-value, NCI Dictionary)
The country name of planned study facility which has received IRB approval.
(Planned Country of Investigational Site, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Where was Mr. Staunton when he received it?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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