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Receive

verb

(past & past part. received; pres. part. receiving)

Get something; come into possession of. Synonym: have. "Receive a gift" , "Receive letters from the front"

Receive a specified treatment (abstract). Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain. "His movie received a good review" , "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

Go through (mental or physical states or experiences). Synonyms: experience, get, have. "Experience vertigo" , "Get nauseous" , "Receive injuries" , "Have a feeling"

Express willingness to have in one's home or environs. Synonyms: invite, take in.

Accept as true or valid.

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival. Synonym: welcome. Antonym: say farewell.

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Experience as a reaction. Synonyms: encounter, meet.

10.

Have or give a reception.

11.

Receive as a retribution or punishment. Synonym: get.

12.

Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.

13.

Regard favorably or with disapproval.

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"Receive" Quotes from Famous Books

... hill and plain and stretched out in every direction as far as the eye could reach. Four hundred ships had moved up the river to receive them. Companies and regiments of magnificently equipped soldiers were marching to the throb of drum and the scream of fife. Thousands of cavalrymen, in gay uniforms, their golden yellow shining in the sun, were dashing across a meadow at the foot of the hill. The long lines of infantry stretched ...

— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

... head looking down rather than up and to one side rather than straight ahead. If you have the proper glass eyes at hand they can be set now, if not, later will do but the lids are relaxed just now to receive them. Fill the back of the sockets with tow or cotton and with a little spoon-shaped modeling tool give this and the inner surface of the lids a good coating of soft clay. The eyes, cut from the wire stem on ...

— Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit • Albert B. Farnham

... regain all her colonies except the Mauritius, St. Lucia, and Tobago. The Spanish portion of San Domingo was restored to the Spanish government. Holland was placed under the sovereignty of the house of Orange, and was to receive an increase of territory; so much of Italy as was not to be ceded to Austria was to consist of independent sovereign states; and Germany was to be formed into a confederation. Finally an European ...

— The Political History of England - Vol XI - From Addington's Administration to the close of William - IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) • George Brodrick

... retort (Figure 8) is arranged to receive about fifteen pounds of chlorate of potash mixed with three pounds of manganese dioxide, after which the cylinder is closed with a tight cap, clamped on. This retort is carried above a burner using fuel gas or other means of generating ...

— Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting • Harold P. Manly

... the valley and the hillsides, delightful little buildings with great glass shelters for rainy days and lawns and flower-beds and creepers, where neat waitresses in black, with their Christian names in white metal worn as a brooch, or great numbers pinned to their shoulders, receive you with laughing welcome, set a red-clothed table for you, and bring you the hot milk and boiled eggs which complete your repast. Be careful of which waitress you smile at on your first day, for she claims you as her especial property ...

— The Gourmet's Guide to Europe • Algernon Bastard

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