receive

verb

to get or attain something

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːv/

noun

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).

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 […]”

verb

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.”
To 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.”
To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
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.”
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 [...]”
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.”
To detect a signal from a transmitter.
To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
To accept into the mind; to understand.
“I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.”