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1. Get something; come into possession of
   "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
   - have
    
2. Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"
   - get, find, obtain, incur
    
3. Register (perceptual input)
   - pick up
    
4. Go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
   "receive injuries"
   - experience, have, get
    
5. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs
   "The community warmly received the refugees"
   - take in, invite
    
6. Accept as true or valid
   "He received Christ"
    
7. Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
   - welcome
    
8. Convert into sounds or pictures
   "receive the incoming radio signals"
    
9. Experience as a reaction
   - meet, encounter
    
10. Have or give a reception
    "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
     
11. Receive as a retribution or punishment
    - get
     
12. Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
     
13. Regard favourably or with disapproval
    "Her new collection of poems was not well received"

Derived forms: received, receiving, receives

See also: receiver, reception, receptive, receptor

Type of: accept, acquire, celebrate, change, comprehend, consider, convert, experience, fete, fête, get, greet, have, partake, perceive, reckon, recognise [Brit], recognize, regard, see, touch, undergo, view

Encyclopedia: Receive