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Definitions: Receive |
ReceiveVerb1. 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) |
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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) |
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Synonyms: ReceiveSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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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) | |
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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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. |
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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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In 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 | 1797-1801 | To prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | We 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 | 1825-1829 | Recent 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 | 1829-1837 | The agent authorized to receive the money was instructed to inform the French minister of his readiness to do so. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Performance bonuses for members of the Senior Executive Service will surely receive scrutiny. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Shortly 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 | 1989-1993 | Teach them that of all the many gifts they can receive, liberty is their most precious legacy. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 68.23% | 5,095 | 1,923 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 31.77% | 2,372 | 3,764 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,467 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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Beginning with "receive": receive-only. | |
Ending with "receive": auto-receive, send-and-receive, transmit-receive. | |
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| 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. |
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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 | 膺 (breast), 著 (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), " , 吃 (destroy, eat, eradicate, stammer), 接待 (admit), 接到 , 接受 (Accept, Accepted, Accepting, received, Receiving), 扱 (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), fá (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 , 博 (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), 戴 (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 przyjmować, otrzymać. (various references) 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) 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) survegnir (to receive). (various references) 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) 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) 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) 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) kisi (box, chest, get, have). (various references) pokea (accept, take, take in). (various references) kw-emúkela (to receive). (various references) få (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) tanggapín (accept, get, have, take, take in). (various references) ต้อนรับ (meet), รับและแปลงสัญญา"ไฟฟ้า, รับ, ยอมรับ (countenance, hold by, own, take, take a bow). (various references) 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) uзramak (come across, meet). (various references) 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) cael (acquire, find, get, have). (various references) k'amik (get, have). (various references) -amukela (accept, take, take in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 English | 450-1100 | ge-geopan, onfon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 5, Verse 41 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Doxan para anqrwpwn ou lambanw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Claritatem ab hominibus non accipio |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ne under-fo ic nane brehtnysse ætmannum. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Y take not clerenesse of men; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | I receave not prayse of men. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I receive not honour from men. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I receive not honor from men. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I do not take honour from men; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 5, Verse 41 |
| Bulgarian | но зная, че вие нямате в себе си любов към Бога. |
| Cebuano | Ako wala magpaabut ug dungog nga gikan sa tawo. |
| Chinese | 我 不 受 從 人 來 的 榮 耀 。 |
| Croatian | Slave od ljudi ne tražim, |
| Danish | Jeg tager ikke Ære af Mennesker; |
| Dutch | Ik neem geen eer van mensen; |
| Finnish | En minä ota vastaan kunniaa ihmisiltä; |
| French | Je ne tire pas ma gloire des hommes. |
| German | Ich nehme nicht Ehre von Menschen; |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen p'ap chache lwanj nan men lèzòm. |
| Hungarian | Dicsõséget emberektõl nem nyerek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku tidak mencari pujian dari manusia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Aku ini menerima kehormatan bukannya daripada pihak manusia; |
| Italian | Io non ricevo gloria dagli uomini. |
| Korean | 나 " 사 람 에 게 영 광 을 취 하 지 아 니 하 노 라 |
| Latvian | No cilvçkiem es godu nepieòemu. |
| Maori | He kororia tangata, kahore ahau e manako atu. |
| Modern Greek | "οξαν παρα ανθρωπων δεν λαμβανω· |
| Norwegian | Jeg tar ikke ære av mennesker; |
| Portuguese | Eu não recebo glória da parte dos homens; |
| Rumanian | Eu nu umblu dupq slava care vine dela oameni. |
| Russian | оЕ ТЙОЙНБА УМБЧЩ ПФ ЮЕМПЧЕЛПЧ, |
| Shuar | "Shuar Winia "Shíiraiti" Túrutainiakuisha nuna Páchiatsjai. |
| Spanish | No recibo gloria de parte de los hombres. |
| Swahili | "Shabaha yangu si kupata sifa kutoka kwa watu. |
| Swedish | Jag tager icke emot pris av människor; |
| Thai | เราไม่รับเกียรติจากมนุษย์ |
| Ukrainian | 'ід людей не приймаю Я слави, |
| Uma | "Uma-a mpopebila' hi manusia'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "receive": received, receiver, receivers, receivership, receiverships, receives. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "receive" (pronounced rusē"v or rēsē"v) |
| 4 | -u s ē" v | deceive. |
| 3 | -s ē" v | conceive, misconceive, misperceive, perceive, preconceive. |
| 3 | -s ē" v | conceive, deceive, misconceive, misperceive, perceive, preconceive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 65 69 76 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. . .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c e i v e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716971758871 |
| 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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