Receive

verb 1: get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" [syn: 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: get, find, obtain, incur]

3: recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal" [syn: pick up]

4: of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, have, get, undergo]

5: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" [syn: take in, invite]

6: accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"

7: bid welcome to; greet upon arrival [syn: welcome] [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]

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]

12: partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

13: regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"

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