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US
/ɹəˈsiv, ɹiˈsiv, ɹɪˈsiv/
]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈiːv/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈiːv/ ]
VERB
-
experience as a reaction
My proposal met with much opposition -
convert into sounds or pictures
receive the incoming radio signals -
express willingness to have in one's home or environs
The community warmly received the refugees -
accept as true or valid
He received Christ - partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
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have or give a reception
The lady is receiving Sunday morning -
register (perceptual input)
pick up a signal -
get something; come into possession of
receive payment
receive letters from the front
receive a gift -
receive a specified treatment (abstract)
I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions
These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
His movie received a good review -
receive as a retribution or punishment
He got 5 years in prison - bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
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regard favorably or with disapproval
Her new collection of poems was not well received -
go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
experience vertigo
get nauseous
have a feeling
receive injuries
get an idea
How To Use receive In A Sentence
- Unless the radar signal is normal to some surface (extremely low probability) the radar receives no return.
- Its hard drive can store 100 movies, and an antenna receives new films via broadcast airwaves.
- Patients received a conditioning regimen that consisted of total body irradiation (1375 cGy in 11 fractions) with partial lung shielding, thiotepa (10 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg), and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (1.5 mg/kg). EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- Thousands of animists joined the Church in 2000 and 1000 adult catechumens are scheduled to be received this Easter.
- Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
- He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
- Espion subscribers also get neat features like text messaging, and can receive promotional messages offering them shopping discounts and club invites.
- In addition, experimental flowers that matured a fruit (and therefore received a visit) had significantly larger corollas compared with corollas of flowers that did not initiate a fruit.
- Some research suggests, however, that the effects of aging are attenuated not by how much people receive from their community but by how much they contribute to it.
- Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
