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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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
