receive

1. 1

   To be given, sent, or paid something.transitive

   • He received many presents for his birthday.
2. 2

   To take, as something that is offered; to accept.datedtransitive

   • He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.
3. 3

   To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

4. 4

   To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.transitive

   • to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
5. 5

   To incur (an injury).transitive

   • I received a bloody nose from the collision.
6. 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 receiu
7. 7

   To detect a signal from a transmitter.

8. 8

   To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.; To be in a position to hit back a service.

9. 9

   To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.; To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

10. 10

    To accept into the mind; to understand.intransitivetransitive

    • I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.

syn. acquire · accept · attain · come by · cop · enlist · fang · gain · garner · get · get hold of · get one's hands on

ant. give · lose · sell · get rid of · unacquire · unget

1. 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 […]