English Explanatory Dictionary

receive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To be given, sent, or paid something.
To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
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 incur (an injury).
To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
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 hit back a service.
To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
To accept into the mind; to understand.

noun

An operation in which data is received.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈsiːv/ en-us-receive.ogg

Word forms

receive receives receiving received no-table-tags glossary receivest receivedst receiveth receave receyve

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).

Synonyms

acquire accept attain come by cop enlist fang gain garner get get hold of get one's hands on land lay hands on lay hold of obtain procure receive secure score snag take win have

Antonyms

give lose sell get rid of unacquire unget

Related words

receipt receivable receivableness receival receiveable receiver receivership receptacle reception receptionist receptive recipient receiving deserve

Derived words

at the receiving end autoreceive misreceive on the receiving end receivability receiving blanket receiving house receiving line receiving reservoir receiving ship receiving time receiving yard RX television receive-only transceive

Translations

Afrikaans: ontvang Arabic: اِسْتَلَمَ Armenian: ստանալ Bulgarian: получа́вам Catalan: rebre Chinese Mandarin: 收 Czech: přijmout Czech: obdržet Czech: dostat Dutch: ontvangen Finnish: ottaa vastaan Finnish: saada French: recevoir Galician: recibir German: empfangen German: erhalten Hindi: लेना Hungarian: megkap Italian: ricevere Japanese: 受け取る Korean: 받다 Māori: whiwhi Norman: r'chéver Portuguese: receber Romanian: primi Russian: получа́ть Russian: получи́ть Spanish: recibir Swahili: pokea Swedish: mottaga Swedish: motta

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