reception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: receptions
Etymology: From Middle English recepcion, reception, from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiōn- (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.
Senses: glosses: The act of receiving.
examples: text: We have poor TV reception in the valley.
text: The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
examples: text: After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
glosses: A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
examples: text: The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
text: At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
ref: 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89:
text: Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
examples: text: The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.
glosses: The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
topics: education
glosses: The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
examples: text: Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.
ref: 1942 October, Ernst Levy, “Reflections on the First "Reception" of Roman Law in Germanic States”, in The American Historical Review, →JSTOR, page 20:
topics: law
glosses: The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
examples: text: Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of catching a pass.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
Synonyms: sense: desk where guests are received
word: front desk
Derived terms: critical reception
electroreception
radio reception
reception center
reception centre
reception chair
reception desk
receptionist
receptionless
reception room
reception wiki
Related terms: receptacle
receptive
receptible
receptor
receive