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Definitions: Receive

Receive

Verb

1. Get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front".

2. Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions".

3. Of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc.

4. Of mental or physical states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling".

5. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees".

6. Accept as true or valid; "He received Christ".

7. Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.

8. Convert into sounds or pictures, of incoming radio signals.

9. Experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition".

10. : have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning".

11. : receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison".

12. : partake of the Eucharist, in a Christian church.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "receive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Receive

DomainDefinitions

Computing

A data storage device used to receive. . and store. . output data from the central processing unit. . . until the output device on which the data are to be written becomes available for use. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

A signal input at either the terminal equipment interface or the test equipment. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Receive

Synonyms: encounter (v), experience (v), find (v), get (v), have (v), incur (v), invite (v), meet (v), obtain (v), pick up (v), take in (v), undergo (v), welcome (v). (additional references)
Antonym: say farewell (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Receive

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Come by, come in for; receive; inherit; step into a fortune, step into the shoes of; succeed to.

Assent

Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.

Belief

Verb: believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume.

Class

Include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; (circumscribe); embody, encircle.

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Sociality

Entertain; give a party; Noun: be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception; n. to kill the fatted calf.

Taking

Verb: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Receive

Specialty definitions using "receive": abstract manager, ACK, Adjusted Gross Revenue Pilot Program, Adjustment to Immigrant Status, Administration, admissions clerk, Advice, Agricultural district, Agricultural Market Transition Act, AMPHIBIAN CREWMEMBER, Angels, animal shelter supervisor, ANTENNA INSTALLER, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, Anterior Thalamic Nuclei, APPOINTMENT CLERK, Arcite, Area yield options contract, armed mine, artificial neural network, ASR, Assassin, assigned numbers, Assimilative Capacity, Aunt, Australian Wheat Board, Automatic Send ReceiveBAGGAGE CHECKER, bank corporation, banking establishment, banking firm, BASE-FILLER OPERATOR, batch-mixing-truck driver, BICYCLE-RENTAL CLERK, Bilateral Investment Treaty, Blood Stone, blower, blast furnace, Blows, bogie bolster, bolster beam, book entry system, Bound tariff rate, Breastfeeding promotion, Brush, BUCKET OPERATOR, Buffalo, bulled hole, Business incubator, BUTCHER, MEATCABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, CABLE TELEVISION LINE TECHNICIAN, call provision, Call to the Unconverted, Candy, cashier, check-cashing agency, casting machine, CERTIFIED MEDICATION TECHNICIAN, channel service unit, CHARGING MANIFOLD, Charing Cross, CHECK CASHIER, Checks, CHEESE SPRAYER, chief of production, CHILD-CARE ATTENDANT, SCHOOL, Church Porch, circularly polarised aerial, circularly polarised antenna, circularly polarized antenna, circularly-polarised antenna, circularly-polarized antenna, clinic clerk, Clinical Clerkship, clinical series, clinical study, Clock, CLOTH SANDER, code clerk, coincidence circuit, College, COMMAND AND CONTROL SPECIALIST, Common Gateway Interface, COMMUNICATION-CENTER OPERATOR, computer conferencing, computer ethics, computer-based conferencing, computer-mediated conferencing, CONCRETE-MIXING-TRUCK DRIVER, CONDUCTOR, ROAD FREIGHT, CONGRESSIONAL-DISTRICT AIDE, connected line identification presentation, connected number identification presentation, ConNIP, Conservation Farm Option Program, consolidated option, constraints, CONSULTANT, EDUCATION, Continental System, Contract payments under AMTA, control group, control-board operator. (references)
Etymologies containing "receive": AccoilConceptaclehospitablerecipeStipendiateUpsitting. (references)

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Modern Usage: Receive

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Some lucky boy's about to hit the honey pot. The winner will receive an evening of my company. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

No. We're discussing an object from which I receive in the classic formula a glancing blow which will raise a lump without actually cracking the cranium. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Show no mercyfor you shall receive none. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Here you'll receive both. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.)

Lyrics

Relax' said the nightman, We are programmed to receive. ("Hotel California"; performing artist: The Eagles)

Clever

You are an engineer if the only jokes you receive are through e-mail. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Phillis Was Not Dressed to Receive Callers (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Receive

DomainTitle

Books

  • Forgiveness: A Guide for Prayer (Take and Receive) (reference)

  • Freedom: A Guide for Prayer (Take and Receive) (reference)

  • Love: A Guide for Prayer (Take and Receive) (reference)

  • Open Your Mind to Receive (reference)

  • Surrender: A Guide to Prayer (Take and Receive) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Manners By Michele, Volume 2; How to Receive Guests and How to be Received as a Guest (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Receive

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Receive

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Disaster Aid. Local citizens receive Typhoid vacinations from Dr. M.L. Fuller, Director, Laredo/Webb County Health Unit and other employees in a mass immunization program following the Rio Grande flood of 1954.Credit: CDC.

Apollo 11 Astronauts Receive a Papal Audience by Pope Paul VI.Credit: NASA.

World longitude network setup at Manila Note radio gear to receive time ticks Chronograph is drum-like instrument to right.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Joseph Lushene operating long-wave radio receiver Attempting to receive time ticks Astro party of Joseph Lushene.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A restoration planting site designated to receive patchy plantings. The planting area is designated by flags.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

NOAA scientists prepare to receive trays of eelgrass turf for transplanting at one of the sites.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

NSSL vehicle with computer to receive data from radiosonde balloon measurements.Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Reginald Fessenden and his electric oscillator, the first acoustic device to receive echoes from the bottom as well as from an obstruction in the water. The oscillator was designed as an underwater signalling, communication, and obstruction avoidance device. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 26. Current meter invented by Thorsten Arwidsson for use in shallow water. Less information is available concerning this model than the preceding instrument. However, it was used by the explorer Sven Hedin, member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the last person to receive Swedish knighthood.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

An 85-foot diameter parabolic antenna used to send commands and receive information from meteorological satellites.Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Receive

AuthorQuotation

Bill Cosby

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

Billy Graham

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Cato

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Elbert Hubbard

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Francois

The gratitude of most men is merely a secret desire to receive greater benefits.

Publilius Syrus

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Thomas Carlyle

Thou who wouldst give, give quickly. In the grave thy loved ones can receive no kindness.

Voltaire

I admire Confucius. He was the first man who did not receive a divine inspiration.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Receive

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

It is certain their laws, by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will of the legislative, reach not a stranger: they speak not to him, nor, if they did, is he bound to hearken to them. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 1: The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. (reference)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

It shall, however, receive a more attentive consideration. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

No officer or man of the German mercantile marine shall receive any training in the Navy. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

United Nations

1948

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. (reference)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Receive

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Receive it on my judgment.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Men looked eagerly to see how the Emperor would receive the bold intruder.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Meeting them in the street, she never raised her head to receive their greeting.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Her remembrance, through you, reached me, and I was glad to receive it.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His arms are open to receive you even though you have sinned against Him.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

As for any further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Receive

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You will only receive results on books. (references)

Many patients receive two or more drugs. (references)

Several special groups do not receive adequate LTC services. (references)

Business

The AFJPs receive revenue only from commissions. (references)

Copyright violators receive jail sentences and fines. (references)

Doctors in public clinics receive around 50-70 USD monthly salary. (references)

Children

Vanuatu

Boys tend to receive more education than girls. (references)

Palau

Girls and boys receive equal treatment in health care services. (references)

Benin

In some parts of the country, girls receive no formal education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kuwait

They do not receive Government subsidies. (references)

Sweden

All churches receive state financial support. (references)

Vietnam

He is unable to receive visitors or phone calls. (references)

Discrimination

Israel and the occupied territories

In the Palestinian territories homosexuals generally are socially marginalized, and occasionally receive physical threats. (references)

Brazil

The Secretariat of State Security of Rio de Janeiro state, in partnership with NGO's, continued to operate a hot line to receive complaints of violence or other crimes against homosexuals. (references)

Slovak Republic

The law prohibits discrimination and provides for the equality of all citizens; however, enforcement of the law is inconsistent, and different minority groups have reported that their members often receive no government assistance for complaints about discrimination. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

Civil servants receive pensions. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudis receive preferential rates. (references)

Mauritius

Laid-off workers receive generous severance pay. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Prisoners also pay bribes to receive better treatment. (references)

Turkey

Police and Jandarma also receive human rights training. (references)

Turkmenistan

The commission continued to receive complaints during the year. (references)

Indigenous People

Finland

Sami receive subsidies to enable them to continue their traditional lifestyle, which revolves around reindeer herding. (references)

Japan

According to a 1999 survey, 3.72 percent of Ainu receive welfare benefits, roughly double the national average of 1.84 percent. (references)

Guatemala

In June the President announced that every public school in the country would receive a series of texts: Literary works, reference books and historical works. (references)

Minorities

Qatar

Noncitizens do not receive the same benefits as citizens. (references)

Dominican Republic

In exchange, the parents receive monetary payment or a supply of clothes and food. (references)

Macedonia

Almost all ethnic-Albanian children receive 8 years of education in Albanian-language schools. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

Lower-paid workers also receive a family subsidy. (references)

HONG KONG

Hong Kong does not receive bilateral or multilateral assistance. (references)

PARAGUAY

Software programs receive the same treatment as literary works under the law. (references)

Political Rights

Algeria

Two parties have failed to receive registration. (references)

Cameroon

At polling places on election day, registered citizens receive a package containing one card for each candidate. (references)

Tunisia

A candidate must receive the endorsement of 30 sitting deputies or municipal council presidents to be eligible to run. (references)

Trade

Uruguay

Most government tenders receive financing support. (references)

Guatemala

The average exporter is able to receive authorization within four to five hours. (references)

Bulgaria

No single applicant may receive a quota allocation larger than 35 percent of the total. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Customers receive a bill every two months. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Expect to receive lower than the daily published rates. (references)

Ireland

Porters and bellhops receive 50 pence per piece of luggage. (references)

Women

Indonesia

Divorced women rarely receive alimony. (references)

Kuwait

Procurers often receive stiff jail terms. (references)

Uganda

These problems continued to receive increasing public attention. (references)

Worker Rights

Mongolia

Some employees receive housing benefits. (references)

Laos

Most civil servants receive inadequate pay. (references)

Malaysia

However, only adult members of the family receive a wage. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Receive

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Celine Dion

I'm trying to. Every time I get back into my emotion and I'm trying to bring as much emotion as possible into the microphone and for the people to receive it. I do my best every time to get into it. We're like actors, singers are like actors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Receive

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.

John Adams

1797-1801To prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809We continue to receive proofs of the growing attachment of our Indian neighbors and of their dispositions to place all their interests under the patronage of the United States.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829Recent advices from the minister of the United States at Paris encourage the expectation that the appeal to the justice of the French Government will ere long receive a favorable consideration.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The agent authorized to receive the money was instructed to inform the French minister of his readiness to do so.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Performance bonuses for members of the Senior Executive Service will surely receive scrutiny.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Shortly you will receive from me a message on further reforms we intend to install--some new, but others long recommended by your own Congressional committees.

George Bush

1989-1993Teach them that of all the many gifts they can receive, liberty is their most precious legacy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Receive

"Receive" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.23% of the time. "Receive" is used about 7,467 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)68.23%5,0951,923
Lexical Verb (base form)31.77%2,3723,764
                    Total100.00%7,467N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Receive

Expressions using "receive": automatic Send Receive keyboard Send Receive receive a blow receive a doctorate receive a good education receive a loss receive a present receive a refusal receive acknowledge receive an order receive communion receive data receive enough receive its quietus receive knowledge receive nothing but abuse receive penance receive ready receive sequence number receive smb. into smb.'s family receive the seals receive with open arms stand ready receive orders the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "receive": receive-only.

Ending with "receive": auto-receive, send-and-receive, transmit-receive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Receive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

receive

149

receive fax

45

card discount gold hundred location member receive

18

receive call while online

16

email receive

15

email get paid per receive

14

fax send receive

12

belonging death receive

11

courier once our package receive

10

receive e mail

10

receive call online

9

donation receive

9

receive faxes

9

receive mail

8

ask and you shall receive

7

receive call

7

receive tcp window

7

receive large file

7

receive send

6

receive holy spirit

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Receive

Language Translations for "receive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

ontvang (get, have), neem (accept, get, lay, lay hold of, pick, pick up, take, take in), kry (get, have), bekom (get, have), aanvaar (accept, take, take in), aanneem (accept, take, take in), aksepteer (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

pranoj (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, allow, avouch, buy, concede, confess, countenance, grant, own, permit, recognize, take, take in, take on, underwrite, wear). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لاقى (encounter, experience, happen on, suffer), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏تلقى (draw), ‏تسلم (extradite, extradition, reception), ‏صرف (absolute, chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay, pay away, pure, put out, resolve, scrape, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, vent, withdraw), ‏إلتقط الأرسال, ‏إتسع ل (admit, sit), ‏إستقبل البث الأذاعي, ‏إستقبل (welcome), ‏أوي (shelter), ‏أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress, wrap), ‏رحب (be wide, capacious, extend, greet, large, ocean, salute, spacious, welcome). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

catoqaña (to receive). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съдържам (comprise, contain, encompass, hold, imply), отстоявам (assert, champion, defend, maintain, stand up for, uphold, vindicate), обект съм на, ловя (prey upon, take), пресрещам (intercept), причестявам се (communicate), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), посрещам гости, поемам (absorb, accept, defray, draw, hit, strike, take, take in), получавам (derive, gain, get, have, obtain, touch, turn), побирам (accommodate, admit, carry, contain, hold, seat, sit, sleep, store, take), издържам (endure, fend for, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, last, maintain, pass, stand, subsist, support, sustain, take, wear out, withstand), давам прием (entertain). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

rebre (get, have), obtenir (get, have), acceptar (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(breast), (apply, book, catch, ignited, -ing, outstanding, part. indicates accompanying action, plan, settlement, suffer, to contact, to make known, to prove, to show, to touch, to use, to wear, to write), " , (destroy, eat, eradicate, stammer), 接待 (admit), 接到 , 接受 (Accept, Accepted, Accepting, received, Receiving), (collect), "到 , 受到 (be given, get, suffer). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyslechnout (hear, hear out), uznávat (acclaim, acknowledge, appreciate, rate), utrpìt (suffer), připustit (acknowledge, admit, agree, concede, grant, permit, recognize), přijmout (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, see, take up), přechovávat (Harbor, harbour), obdržet (get, have, obtain), dostat (be given, come by, concede, contract, develop, get, have, obtain, to reach), dostávat (earn, get), dopadnout (apprehend, capture, go over, hound down, hunt down, land, pitch, seize, strike). (various references)

   

Danish

  

modtage (accept, get, have, receiving, take, take in). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontvangen (accept, conceive, get, have, receiving, take, take in), accepteren (accept, take, take in), aanvaarden (accept, take, take in), aannemen (accept, adopt, affiliate, confirm, employ, guess, hire, presume, suppose, surmise, take, take in). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ricevi (get, have). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

viðurkenna (accept, acknowledge, appreciate, approve, recognize, take, take in), taka við (accept, take, take in), taka ímóti (accept, take, take in), fáa (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, be able, be able to, get, harvest, have, obtain, provide, reach). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پذیرفتن (Accept, Admit, Allow, Embrace, Hear, Listen, Matriculate, Vouchsafe), پذیراءی کردن از, وصول کردن (Cash, Collect, Receipt), جادادن (Accommodate, Chamber, Embed, Fix, House, Incorporate, Incorporation, Infix, Insert, Settle, Stable, Stead), رسیدن (Accede, Achieve, Aim, Amount, Arrive, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Strand), دریافت کردن (Cash, Draw, Recover). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saada (be allowed, be permitted, get, have, obtain), ottaa vastaan (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

French

  

recevoir, admettre, accueillir. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oannimme (accept, adopt, take, take in), oanfurdigje (accept, take, take in), krije (get, have), ûntfange (get, have). (various references)

   

German

  

erhalten (be awarded, be given, conserve, get, have, keep, maintain, obtain, obtained, poll, preserve, recd, support, sustain, to achieve, to conceive, to conserve, to obtain), empfangen (accept, be awarded, be given, conceive, conceived, get, greet, have, meet, pick up, receipt, receipted, receiving, reception, see, take, take in, to receive, welcome), bekommen (agree with, be awarded, be given, catch, develop, do good, expect, gain, get, get in, get off, getting, gotten, have, line up, obtain, pick up, reap, score, take, take on, throw, to get, to obtain, win). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λαμβάνω (assume, get, have, take). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

pranoj (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקלוט (absorb, comprehend, imbibe, merge, occlude, take in), לקחת (bring, grasp, have, seize, take), לקבל (accept, acquire, come by, get, obtain, take, take on), ל"קביל פ י (greet), ל חול (inherit, possess, seize, take possession). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

részesül (partaken, partook, to go on the parish, to partake), kap (get, got, take, to be given, to get, to receive, to row, to snatch, to take wing), elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, adopt, recognize, take, take in, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from), akceptál (accept, take, take in), átvesz (take over, to be in receipt of, to receive, to take from, to take over). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

samþykkja (accept, accord, agree, come to an agreement, take, take in), (get, have, have/get), þakka (accept, take, take in, thank). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menerima (accept), mendapat (find, gain, get, need, realize, reap), menanggapi (perceive, respond). (various references)

   

Irish

  

glac (accept, take, take in), faomh (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricevere (accept, be at home to, entertain, get, grant audience to, have, obtain, read, receives, take, welcome), accogliere (accept, admit, agree to, allow, grant, Harbor, harbour, sustain, take, take in, welcome), accettare (accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, agree to, follow, take, take in, welcome). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

落掌 , 落手 , (command esteem, commanding esteem, doctor, exhibition, exposition, fair, gain, gaining, half, Ph.D., receiving, win acclaim, winning acclaim), レコード分離キャラクタ (leather, leather craft, leather wear, leathercloth, lecithin, ratio, razor, razor cut, receipt, receiver, reciprocating engine, recitation, recommendation, record separator, register), 接受 (intercept), (be crowned with). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), レシーブ , ばく (command esteem, commanding esteem, doctor, exhibition, exposition, fair, gain, gaining, Ph.D., receiving, tapir, win acclaim, winning acclaim), せつじゅ (intercept), らくしゅ (lampoon, satirical poem), らくしょう (easy victory), はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

받으십시". (various references)

   

Lombard

  

accett (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Malay

  

terima (accept, get, have, take, take in), menerima (accept, get, have, take, take in). (various references)

   

Manx

  

oltaghey (bless, bless as food, entertain, entertaining, entertainment, grace, grace before food, hospitality, reception, refresh, regale, salutation, salute, treat, welcome), cur failt er (welcome). (various references)

   

Maori

  

tango-hia (to receive). (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

-yenahs (to receive). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

godta (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

haya (achieve, acquire, attain, find, get, have, obtain), haña (achieve, acquire, attain, find, get, have, obtain), aseptá (accept, take, take in), akseptá (accept, take, take in), akohé (get, have). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eceiveray

   

Polish

  

przyjmować, otrzymać. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

receber (accept, collect, derive, do, entertain, get, have, meet one's commitment, reap, salute, take in, to cash, welcome), aceitar (accept, adhere, admit, adopt, assume, have, huge, subscribe, take, take in, take on, undertake), admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, avow, concede, confess, grant, lead on, let in, take in), acolher (accept, admit, entertain, Harbor, harbour, salute, shelter, take in, welcome). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

primi (accept, derive, draw, embrace, entertain, get, have, let in, take, take in), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, agree, approve, assent, assume, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, take, take in, take on). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

survegnir (to receive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

принимать (accept, accepted, adopt, assume, embrace, incorporate, pass, receive a visit, take in, take on, take over, take up), получать (acquire, charge back, derive, gain, get, got, got [], gotten, have, make, obtain, relish, score a, score an, take). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

gabh (accept, admit of, get, go, lay hold of, pick up, proceed, sing, take), faigh (find, find : faigh as air, get, get away from him, have). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zadobiti (gain, get, obtain, win over), steći (acquire, gain, get, win), primiti (accept, admit, take, take it into, take on, take over, welcome), primati (keep down, primates), naići na (rencounter, run up against), dobiti (acquire, get, get hold of, get in, obtain, win), dobijati (get), dočekati (meet, welcome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recibir (bow smb. in, get, greet, have, live, see, take, take in, welcome), tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, pick up, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), obtener (achieve, acquire, attain, bring off, come by, derive, earn, elicit, extract, get, get in, have, jump on, land, obtain, poll, procure, secure, take out), aceptar (accept, accepts, admit, adopt, agree, allow, digest, embrace, fall in, honor, honour, identify, lap up, say yes to, see, take, take in, take on, take up), admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, admit of, allow, allow of, allow out, avow, bear, concede, confess, initiate, recognize, take, take in, tell), acoger (get, greet, guest, obtain, salute, sojourner, take in, welcome). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

kisi (box, chest, get, have). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

pokea (accept, take, take in). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

kw-emúkela (to receive). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

(a few, acquire, be able to, be allowed to, be given, bring, bring about, can, catch, could, derive, earn, few, gain, get, get to, getting, have, have got to, have to, keep, lead, litter, make, may, might, obtain, score, send, take, will, win), anamma (accept, appropriate, get, have), undfå (get, have), mottaga, erhålla (derive, gain, get, obtain, procure), bekomma (concern, get, have). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

tanggapín (accept, get, have, take, take in). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ต้อนรับ (meet), รับและแปลงสัญญา"ไฟฟ้า, รับ, ยอมรับ (countenance, hold by, own, take, take a bow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

uзramak (come across, meet). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сприймати (apperceive, feel, imbibe, take), одержувати (acquire, attain, derive, gain, get, obtain, pull, resume), зазнати, приймати (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, initiate, take in, take on, take over, tidy). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cael (acquire, find, get, have). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

k'amik (get, have). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-amukela (accept, take, take in). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Receive

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

acceperant, acceperat, acceperim, acceperint, acceperis, acceperit, acceperitis, accepero, acceperunt, acceperuntque, accepi, accepimus, accepisse, accepisset, accepissetis, accepisti, accepistis, accepit, accepitque, accepta, acceptam, acceptamque, acceptas, accepti, acceptis, acceptisque, accepto, acceptum, accepturi, accepturum, accepturus, acceptus, accipe, accipere, acciperem, acciperemus, acciperent, acciperet, accipiam, accipiamus, accipiant, accipias, accipiat, accipiatis, accipiatur, accipiebant, accipiebat, accipiemus, accipiendo, accipiendum, accipiens, accipient, accipientem, accipientes, accipientque, accipies, accipiesque, accipiet, accipietis, accipimus, accipio, accipis, accipit, accipite, accipitis, accipiunt, admisisse, admisit, admissura, admitte, admittere, admitto, communicabit, communicabo, communicant, communicantes, communicare, communicat, communicaveris, communicaverit, communicaverunt, communicavit, communices, communicet, communico, concipio, exceperint, exceperunt, excepi, excepistis, excepit, excepta, exceptis, excepto, exceptoria, exceptus, excipe, excipere, excipiens, excipientes, excipies, excipiet, excipite, fer, feram, feramur, ferant, feras, ferat, ferebant, ferebantur, ferebanturque, ferebat, ferebatur, feremus, ferens, ferent, ferente, ferentem, ferentes, feret, feretis, ferque, ferre, ferrent, ferret, ferri, fers, fert, ferte, fertis, fertur, ferunt, introferrent, lata, latam, late, latum, latus, nanctus, recepto, recipere, susceperant, susceperat, suscepere, susceperint, susceperis, susceperit, susceperunt, susceperuntque, suscepi, suscepimus, suscepisse, suscepisset, suscepisti, suscepistis, suscepit, suscepta, susceptamque, susceptaque, suscepti, suscepto, susceptoria, susceptum, susceptumque, suscepturi, susceptus, suscipe, suscipere, susciperent, susciperes, suscipiam, suscipiamus, suscipiant, suscipias, suscipiat, suscipiatis, suscipiebant, suscipiendam, suscipiendos, suscipiens, suscipiensque, suscipient, suscipientes, suscipies, suscipiesque, suscipiet, suscipietis, suscipietque, suscipietur, suscipimus, suscipio, suscipit, suscipite, suscipitis, suscipiunt, tulerant, tulerat, tulere, tulerim, tuleris, tulerit, tuleritis, tulero, tulerunt, tuleruntque, tuli, tulimus, tulimusque, tulique, tulissent, tulisset, tulisti, tulistis, tulit, tulitque. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ge-geopan, onfon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Receive

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 5, Verse 41
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintDoxan para anqrwpwn ou lambanw
Latin405VulgateClaritatem ab hominibus non accipio
Old English990West SaxonNe under-fo ic nane brehtnysse ætmannum.
Middle English1395WyclifY take not clerenesse of men;
Renaissance English1526TyndaleI receave not prayse of men.
Jacobean English1611King JamesI receive not honour from men.
Victorian English1833WebsterI receive not honor from men.
Basic English1964OgdenI do not take honour from men;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Receive

LanguageJohn Chapter 5, Verse 41
Bulgarianно зная, че вие нямате в себе си любов към Бога.
CebuanoAko wala magpaabut ug dungog nga gikan sa tawo.
Chinese我 不 受 從 人 來 的 榮 耀 。
CroatianSlave od ljudi ne tražim,
DanishJeg tager ikke Ære af Mennesker;
DutchIk neem geen eer van mensen;
FinnishEn minä ota vastaan kunniaa ihmisiltä;
FrenchJe ne tire pas ma gloire des hommes.
GermanIch nehme nicht Ehre von Menschen;
Haitian CreoleMwen p'ap chache lwanj nan men lèzòm.
HungarianDicsõséget emberektõl nem nyerek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariAku tidak mencari pujian dari manusia.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaAku ini menerima kehormatan bukannya daripada pihak manusia;
ItalianIo non ricevo gloria dagli uomini.
Korean나 " 사 람 에 게 영 광 을 취 하 지 아 니 하 노 라
LatvianNo cilvçkiem es godu nepieòemu.
MaoriHe kororia tangata, kahore ahau e manako atu.
Modern Greek"οξαν παρα ανθρωπων δεν λαμβανω·
NorwegianJeg tar ikke ære av mennesker;
PortugueseEu não recebo glória da parte dos homens;   
RumanianEu nu umblu dupq slava care vine dela oameni.
RussianоЕ ТЙОЙНБА УМБЧЩ ПФ ЮЕМПЧЕЛПЧ,
Shuar"Shuar Winia "Shíiraiti" Túrutainiakuisha nuna Páchiatsjai.
SpanishNo recibo gloria de parte de los hombres.
Swahili"Shabaha yangu si kupata sifa kutoka kwa watu.
SwedishJag tager icke emot pris av människor;
Thaiเราไม่รับเกียรติจากมนุษย์
Ukrainian'ід людей не приймаю Я слави,
Uma"Uma-a mpopebila' hi manusia'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Receive

Derivations

Words beginning with "receive": received, receiver, receivers, receivership, receiverships, receives. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Receive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arcevia, preceeve, preceiv, preceive, precieve, recave, recdeive, receave, recei, receice, receide, receieve, receipe, receite, receiveth, recerie, receve, reciede, reciepe, reciete, recieve, recive, recodify, recurve, releave, rereive, rescive, resieve, reveive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Receive"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "receive" (pronounced rusē"v or rēsē"v)
4-u s ē" vdeceive.
3-s ē" vconceive, misconceive, misperceive, perceive, preconceive.
3-s ē" vconceive, deceive, misconceive, misperceive, perceive, preconceive.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Receive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-r-v"

-2 letters: eerie, reeve, reive.

-3 letters: cere, cire, ever, rice, rive, veer, vice, vier.

-4 letters: cee, ere, eve, ice, ire, rec, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie.

-5 letters: er, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-r-v"
 

+1 letter: deceiver, erective, perceive, received, receiver, receives.

 

+2 letters: deceivers, decretive, echeveria, perceived, perceiver, perceives, receivers, receptive, recessive, rejective, reservice, secretive, vicereine.

 

+3 letters: apperceive, brevetcies, divergence, echeverias, eviscerate, execrative, fervencies, kerchieves, overexcite, perceivers, perceptive, perfective, preceptive, preservice, receivable, recessives, reconceive, recoveries, recreative, reflective, reserviced, reservices, respective, servicemen, vicegerent, vicereines, virescence.

 

+4 letters: apperceived, apperceives, decemvirate, deliverance, divergences, eigenvector, eviscerated, eviscerates, irrelevance, irreverence, misperceive, overachieve, overexcited, overexcites, overprecise, overservice, perceivable, perfectives, persecutive, perspective, preconceive, provenience, receivables, receptively, recessively, reconceived, reconceives, reeducative, relevancies, reverencing, secretively, serviceable, unperceived, unreceptive, velocimeter, vicegerency, vicegerents, virescences.

 

+5 letters: accelerative, advertencies, apperceptive, cantilevered, coerciveness, creativeness, decemvirates, deliverances, depreciative, disseverance, divergencies, effervescing, eigenvectors, imperceptive, imperfective, inadvertence, interservice, inveteracies, irrelevances, irrespective, irreverences, misperceived, misperceives, overachieved, overachiever, overachieves, overdirected, overexercise, overmedicate, overreliance, overserviced, overservices, perceptively, perfectively, perspectives, preconceived, preconceives, proveniences, reactiveness, receivership, recuperative, rediscovered, reflectively, repercussive, respectively, reviviscence, serviceberry, servicewomen, subservience, underachieve, unperceptive, unreflective, velocimeters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Receive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 63 65 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -.-.    .    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#99 &#101 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0063 0065 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52716971758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

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