receive
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).
Inflected forms:
form: receives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: receiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: received
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: received
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: received
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: receivest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: received
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: receivedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: receives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: receiveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: received
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: received
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: received
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: receive
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: receiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: received
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: receave
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: receyve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: receives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: receave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: receyve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To be given, sent, or paid something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He received many presents for his birthday.
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on "direct marketing"—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
gloss: To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.
Our hearts receiue your warnings.
The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.
[T]he braſen Altar that was before the Lord was too little to receiue the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst Seth and Enoch, and Enoch Thou translatedst; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them.
gloss: To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
pos: verb
gloss: To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
And the barbarous people ſhewed vs no little kindneſſe: for they kindled a fire, and receiued us euery one becauſe of the preſent raine, and becauſe of the cold.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass. [...] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance; they were received with distance and suspicion.
gloss: To incur (an injury).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I received a bloody nose from the collision.
But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground [...]
gloss: To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
pos: verb
examples: For the Phariſes and all the Jewes, except they waſh their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they waſh, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they have receiued to hold, as the waſhing of cups and pots, braſen veſſels, and of tables.
gloss: To detect a signal from a transmitter.
pos: verb
gloss: To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
pos: verb
gloss: To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
pos: verb
gloss: To accept into the mind; to understand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.
gloss: An operation in which data is received.
pos: noun
examples: In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
Synonyms: acquire
accept
attain
come by
cop
enlist
fang
gain
garner
get
get hold of
get one's hands on
land
lay hands on
lay hold of
obtain
procure
receive
secure
score
snag
take
win
Antonyms: give
lose
sell
get rid of
unacquire
unget
Related words: receipt
receivable
receivableness
receival
receiveable
receiver
receivership
receptacle
reception
receptionist
receptive
recipient
receiving
deserve
Derived words: at the receiving end
autoreceive
misreceive
on the receiving end
receivability
receiving blanket
receiving house
receiving line
receiving reservoir
receiving ship
receiving time
receiving yard
RX
television receive-only
transceive
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ontvang
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَلَمَ
roman: istalama
lang: Armenian
word: ստանալ
roman: stanal
lang: Bulgarian
word: получа́вам
roman: polučávam
lang: Catalan
word: rebre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 收
roman: shōu
lang: Czech
word: přijmout
lang: Czech
word: obdržet
lang: Czech
word: dostat
lang: Dutch
word: ontvangen
lang: Finnish
word: ottaa vastaan
lang: Finnish
word: saada
lang: French
word: recevoir
lang: Galician
word: recibir
lang: German
word: empfangen
lang: German
word: erhalten
lang: Hindi
word: लेना
roman: lenā
lang: Hungarian
word: megkap
lang: Italian
word: ricevere
lang: Japanese
word: 受け取る
roman: uketoru
lang: Korean
word: 받다
roman: batda
lang: Māori
word: whiwhi
lang: Norman
word: r'chéver
lang: Portuguese
word: receber
lang: Romanian
word: primi
lang: Russian
word: получа́ть
roman: polučátʹ
lang: Russian
word: получи́ть
roman: polučítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: recibir
lang: Swahili
word: pokea
lang: Swedish
word: mottaga
lang: Swedish
word: motta