receive

verb

1. 1

   To be given, sent, or paid something.

   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.

2. 2

   datedTo take, as something that is offered; to accept.

   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.

3. 3

   To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

4. 4

   To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

   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.

5. 5

   To incur (an injury).

   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 [...]

6. 6

   To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

   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.

7. 7

   To detect a signal from a transmitter.

8. 8

   To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball. To be in a position to hit back a service.

9. 9

   To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball. To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

10. 10

    To accept into the mind; to understand.

    I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.

noun

1. 1

   An operation in which data is received.

   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 […]

Forms

plural

receives

past tense

received

past participle

received

present participle

receiving

third person singular

receives