Receive - Definition

v 1: get something; come into possession of; "receive payment";
"receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" [syn:
receive, 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"; "I got
nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive,
get, find, obtain, incur]
3: register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal" [syn: pick
up, receive]
4: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get
an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive
injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive,
have, get]
5: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The
community warmly received the refugees" [syn: receive,
take in, invite]
6: accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
7: bid welcome to; greet upon arrival [syn: welcome,
receive] [ant: say farewell]
8: convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio
signals"
9: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much
opposition" [syn: meet, encounter, receive]
10: have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday
morning"
11: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in
prison" [syn: get, receive]
12: partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
13: regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of
poems was not well received"