reception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
business
education
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
football
games
hobbies
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
sports
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 (“to hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.
Base: receive
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: receptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of receiving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
gloss: A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
"There was warmth, but there was also trepidation," said the head of one gay group, who attended the reception.
gloss: A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
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.
The crusty portier and the crusty clerks gave us the surly reception which their kind deal out in prosperous times, but by mollifying them with an extra display of obsequiousness and servility we finally got them to show us to the room which our boy had engaged for us.
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.
gloss: The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.
gloss: The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of catching a pass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: receptacle
receptive
receptible
receptor
receive
Derived words: autoreception
baroreception
chemoreception
critical reception
electroreception
magnetoreception
mechanoreception
nonreception
osmoreception
phonoreception
photoception
photoreception
proprioception
receptional
reception center
reception centre
reception chair
reception desk
receptionism
receptionist
receptionless
reception room
reception shed
reception wiki
telereception
thermoreception
wedding reception
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَكْتَب الِاسْتِقْبَال
roman: maktab al-istiqbāl
lang: Arabic
word: الاستقبال
roman: al-istigbāl
lang: Armenian
word: ընդունարան
roman: əndunaran
lang: Belarusian
word: прыёмная
roman: pryjómnaja
lang: Belarusian
word: рэгістрату́ра
roman: rehistratúra
lang: Bulgarian
word: реце́пция
roman: recépcija
lang: Catalan
word: recepció
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 接待處 /接待处
roman: jiēdàichù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 櫃檯 /柜台
roman: guìtái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 前臺 /前台
roman: qiántái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 接受處 /接受处
roman: jiēshòuchù
lang: Czech
word: recepce
lang: Danish
word: reception
lang: Dutch
word: receptie
lang: Dutch
word: balie
lang: Esperanto
word: akceptejo
lang: Estonian
word: vastuvõtt
lang: Finnish
word: vastaanotto
lang: French
word: réception
lang: Galician
word: recepción
lang: Georgian
word: მისაღები
roman: misaɣebi
lang: German
word: Rezeption
lang: German
word: Empfang
lang: Greek
word: υποδοχή
roman: ypodochí
lang: Greek
word: ρεσεψιόν
roman: resepsión
lang: Hungarian
word: recepció
lang: Irish
word: deasc fáiltithe
lang: Italian
word: reception
lang: Italian
word: ricezione
lang: Japanese
word: 受付
roman: uketsuke
lang: Japanese
word: フロント
roman: furonto
lang: Japanese
word: レセプション
roman: resepushon
lang: Korean
word: 접수처
roman: jeopsucheo
lang: Korean
word: 리셉션
roman: risepsyeon
lang: Korean
word: 프런트
roman: peureonteu
lang: Macedonian
word: реце́пција
roman: recépcija
lang: Macedonian
word: ша́лтер
roman: šálter
lang: Māori
word: taupaepae
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: resepsjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: resepsjon
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پَذیرِش
roman: pazireš
lang: Polish
word: recepcja
lang: Portuguese
word: recepção
lang: Russian
word: приёмная
roman: prijómnaja
lang: Russian
word: сто́йка администра́тора
roman: stójka administrátora
lang: Russian
word: регистрату́ра
roman: registratúra
lang: Russian
word: ресе́пшен
roman: resɛ́pšen
lang: Russian
word: реце́пция
roman: recépcija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: recepcija
lang: Slovak
word: recepcia
lang: Spanish
word: recepción
lang: Swahili
word: mapokezi
lang: Swedish
word: reception
lang: Swedish
word: vakt
lang: Turkish
word: resepsiyon
lang: Ukrainian
word: прийма́льня
roman: pryjmálʹnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: реєстрату́ра
roman: rejestratúra
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng lễ tân
lang: Vietnamese
word: quầy lễ tân
lang: Welsh
word: derbynfa