noun
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An operation in which data is received.
verb
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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
example
She received many presents for her birthday.
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To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
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To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
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to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
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To incur (an injury).
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I received a bloody nose from the collision.
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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
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To detect a signal from a transmitter.
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To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
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To accept into the mind; to understand.
Examples of receive in a Sentence
You shall receive proper pay for your work.
When am I to receive the money, Count?
She waited until it was her turn to receive her scroll.
I was delighted to receive the flowers from home.
Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
But I read about other horrible crimes and abductions where we never receive a tip.
You'll soon receive orders to report to a set of coords with the box.
Did you not receive my first summons?
All that he now witnessed scarcely made an impression on him--as if his soul, making ready for a hard struggle, refused to receive impressions that might weaken it.
You'll continue to receive dividends for the stock in your names so there will be sufficient funds for you all to move on.
The town was the seat of the counts of Cleves as early as the 11th century, but it did not receive municipal rights until 1242.
Any of us in the field receive it, he said and held up his iPhone.
He had a right to their labour in return for their keep. He might hire them out and receive their wages, pledge them for debt, even sell them outright.
Katie hesitated, then strode through the main hallways, suspecting Hannah would be too star struck to notice the looks they.d certainly receive from others.
I believe the Council will be visiting us as well once they receive word of what I have done.
I was very happy to receive pretty book and nice candy and two letters from you.
He lifted his chin to receive her kiss, but his lips didn't respond.
By the end of the four-month campaign, the White House would receive two million dimes.
The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination.
In short, we retreat after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up the command of the army to General Buxhowden.
How far she could receive communications is hard to determine, but she knew much that was going on around her.
Could it be possible that he would receive that thrashing?
He rose and began pacing the room as Dean stopped by and proceeded to bend Dean's ear how this was the day he and Paulette were to receive a firm offer on the Lucky Pup property.
Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity?
Special contracts, known as colonie immovibili and colonie tern poranee are applied to the latifondi or huge estates, the owners of which receive half the produce, except that of the vines, olive-trees and woods, which he leases separately.
Saladin's lack of a fleet enabled the Christians to receive reinforcements and thus recover from their defeats by land.
These may be called the spinal eyes, and it is said that they are disposed in such a way as to receive illumination preferentially from the right side, although this fact has no relation with the side upon which Amphioxus may lie upon the sand.
For they cut the cheeks of the males with a sword, so that before they receive the nourishment of milk they must learn to endure wounds.
His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far-off town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them?
As it is, not only has she left us, and particularly Prince Andrew, with the purest regrets and memories, but probably she will there receive a place I dare not hope for myself.
Duroc said that Napoleon would receive the Russian general before going for his ride.
She hesitated only a second more and leaned into him, parting her warm lips to receive his kiss.
Look, Kris, don't take our resistance personally. Anyone who tried to step into Andre's shoes would receive the same treatment. It's too soon after his death.
On the 30th of November 1411 Chicheley, with two other bishops and three earls and the -4 prince of Wales, knelt to the king to receive public thanks for their administration.
State officials are forbidden to accept railway passes from railway companies, and individuals are forbidden to receive freight rebates.
The weeders, faces to the wind, move slowly on hands and knees, and should remove every vestige of weed in order that the flax plants may receive the full benefit of the land.
About 1780 Jezzar peremptorily banished the French trading colony, in spite of protests from the French government, and refused to receive a consul.
The religious consciousness does not receive from him the slightest consideration.
My dear Miss Moore Are you very glad to receive a nice letter from your darling little friend?
She at once quitted Nohant, taking with her Solange, and in 1831 an amicable separation was agreed upon, by which her whole estate was surrendered to the husband with the stipulation that she should receive an allowance of £120 a year.
It should be evident that what we have first to explain is the fact that we receive any light from the sky at all.
The first kind lay quite beyond the power of man to receive it, the second was within man's reach.
The Senate would choose its own president, and the House of Representatives its speaker; each house would make its own rules of procedure; in each, one-third of the number of members would form a quorum; the members of each must take oath, or make affirmation of allegiance; and all alike would receive an allowance of £400 a year.
In normal circumstances the instruments at both ends are ready to receive, both ends of the line being to earth through the receiving instruments.
They may be divided into two classes; those of the plateau region which occupy lacustrine depressions and receive the drainage of the surrounding country; and the tide-water lagoons of the coast formed by the building up of new sand beaches across the indentations in the coast-line.
Another group of lakes is to be found in the Laguna district of south-western Coahuila, where the Tlahualila, Mairan, Parras and others occupy a large lacustrine depression and receive the waters of the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers from the south-west (Durango).
The windward slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental receive the greater part of the rainfall, and the winds, deprived of their moisture, pass over the northern plateau without further precipitation.
The southern terraces of the plateau have no high mountain barriers between them and the moist winds of the Caribbean, and they too receive an abundant rainfall in the wet season, especially during the prevalence of heavy " northers " on the Gulf coast.
Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.
The critical resources at the disposal of scholars in 1611 were very meagre, and the few early manuscripts with which they were acquainted failed to receive the attention they deserved.