receive

verb receives · receiving · received · receive

1. transitive To be given, sent, or paid something. He received many presents for his birthday.
2. dated, transitive To take, as something that is offered; to accept. He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.
3. To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
4. transitive 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.

   Similar: have

5. transitive To incur (an injury). I received a bloody nose from the collision.
6. 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,
7. To detect a signal from a transmitter.
8. To be in a position to hit back a service.
9. To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
10. intransitive, transitive To accept into the mind; to understand. I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.

Similar: 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 · Opposite: give, lose, sell, get rid of, unacquire, unget

noun receives · receave · receyve

1. 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 […]