Word Finder - reception

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The act of receiving.

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The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

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The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

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A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

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After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

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A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

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The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.

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The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

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The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

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The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

There was a pleasant reception area.

I tried to get reception up here.

Mr. Westervelt gave us a reception one afternoon.

The woman and boy left while she filled out the paperwork and then set it on a counter of what looked like an abandoned reception area.

Katie whisked them away to the reception room.

Yully responded, her thick Irish lilt and the poor phone reception frustrating him.

He pointed as he walked, indicating the dining room, the library, the reception room, and others, each sounding stuffier than the last and all marked by polished oak double doors.

Before a teacher was found for Tommy and while he was still in the care of Helen and Miss Sullivan, a reception was held for him at the kindergarten.

Dr. Humason, Teacher, and I left the others at the Dog Show and went to a reception given by the "Metropolitan Club."...

After my little "speech," we attended a reception at which over six hundred people were present.

The magnificent reception room was crowded.

Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War.

She wrote to Prince Andrew about the reception of his letter, but comforted him with hopes of reconciling their father to the idea.

While waiting in the reception room Pierre with weary eyes watched the various officials, old and young, military and civilian, who were there.

Too surprised to understand what exactly was happening, she obeyed the police officer's instructions to sit down and shut up and sat in the quiet police station reception area.

Evelyn's wedding was for a hundred invitees in a small chapel by the ocean followed by a reception for over twice that many guests.

One of these myths is the famous story of Ishtar's descent to Irkalla or Aralu, as the lower world was called, and her reception by her sister who presides over it; the other is the story of Nergal's offence against Ereshkigal, his banishment to the kingdom controlled by the goddess and the reconciliation between Nergal and Ereshkigal through the latter's offer to have Nergal share the honours of the rule over Irkalla.

Animals, hitherto unknown to the Romans, were exhibited in the circus, and an artificial lake (eunipus) was made for the reception of crocodiles and hippopotamuses.

Amongst other princes whose liberal presents enabled him to combat his pecuniary difficulties, was one Rustam, son of Fakhr Addaula, the Dailamite, who sent him a thousand gold pieces in acknowledgment of a copy of the episode of Rustam and Isfendiar which Firdousi had sent him, and promised him a gracious reception if he should ever come to his court.

There is little leprosy in the peninsula, but there is a leper hospital near Penang on Pula Deraja and another on an island on the west coast for the reception of lepers from the Federated Malay States.

When he was informed that among others awaiting him in his reception room there was a Frenchman who had brought a letter from his wife, the Countess Helene, he felt suddenly overcome by that sense of confusion and hopelessness to which he was apt to succumb.

During their wedding reception, the couple played a slideshow to reminisce on the many lovely moments they shared together.

His letter met with a cold reception.

The work of Marco Polo is the most valuable narrative of travels that appeared during the middle ages, and despite a cold reception and many denials of the accuracy of the record, its substantial truthfulness has been abundantly proved.

The first considerable house in Southport (an inn for the reception of sea-bathers) was built in 1791, and soon after other houses were erected on the site now known as Lord Street, but the population in 1809 was only loo.

The property boasts a good quality fitted kitchen which is complimented by a light and airy reception room having stripped wooden flooring.

Floor to ceiling glass doors lead from the reception rooms onto the covered terrace which looks toward the pool, vineyards and Pyrenean foothills.

In Everard Mills ' time they had generally been given a rather frosty reception.

But the assembled hacks were faced with a torrential downpour as they attempted to leave the reception.

Internally this property comprises reception hallway, lounge, small fitted kitchen, 1 bedroom.. .

The eveningâs entertainment will include a harpist during the drinks reception followed by a string quartet playing throughout the dinner.

Admission is strictly via reception and you are required to wear safety headgear.

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Boris thanked him and went to the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals.

Smiling unnaturally and muttering to himself, he first sat down on the sofa in an attitude of despair, then rose, went to the door of the reception room and peeped through the crack, returned flourishing his arms, and took up a book.

My only hint occurred during a dance with Martha at our wedding reception.

Dean moved into the shade and closer to the building for better reception.

Dean then brought Lydia Larkin into the picture by telling Jake Weller how she had radioed Fitzgerald with the two Denver investigators in her car, making the call from the spot where he claimed she'd be out of reception.

Members from other Churches are generally admitted by reception.

That officer, however, was on his guard, and, while offering to convey the emperor to England declined to pledge himself in any way as to his reception.

The folly of the monarchs of the Holy Alliance in Europe gained for the writings of Montholon and Las Cases (that of Gourgaud was not published till 1899) a ready reception, with the result that Napoleon reappeared in the literature of the ensuing decades wielding an influence scarcely less potent than that of the grey-coated figure into whose arms France flung herself on his return from Elba.

Then a new order " Picariae " is instituted for the reception of the Macrochires, Cuculinae, Picinae Psittacinae and Amphibolae of his old arrangement, to which are added three 3 others - Caprimulginae, Todidae and Lipoglossae - the last consisting of the genera Buceros, Upupa and Alcedo.

These and other characters separate the two forms so widely as quite to justify the establishment of as many orders for their reception.

The second step in the evolution of spinning instincts was probably the making of a silken chamber for the reception of the cocoon itself and for the protection of the mother while guarding it and her newly-hatched young.

In spite of this very limited reception the Formula Concordiae has always been reckoned with the five other documents as of confessional authority.

A gild was formed at Acre - the gild of St Adrian - which, if nominally religious in its origin, soon came to represent the political opposition to Frederick, as was significantly proved by its reception of the rebellious John of Beirut as a member (1232).

Ponce's hospitable reception by the native chief, Aquebana or Guaybana, and his fairly profitable search for the precious metal led King Ferdinand in 1509 to give him an appointment as temporary governor of the island, where his companions had already established the settlement of Caparra (Pueblo Viejo, near the present San Juan).

Among other matters reference is made to the introduction of Christianity in the reign of Tiberius; the persecution under Diocletian; the spread of the Arian heresy; the election of Maximus as emperor by the legions in Britain, and his subsequent death at Aquileia; the incursions of the Picts and Scots into the southern part of the island; the temporary assistance rendered to the harassed Britons by the Romans; the final abandonment of the island by the latter; the coming of the Saxons and their reception by Guortigern (Vortigern); and, finally, the conflicts between the Britons, led by a noble Roman, Ambrosius Aurelianus, and the new invaders.

In one day he caused no fewer than 2600 of these outcasts and depredators in Munich and its suburbs alone to be arrested by military patrols, and transferred by them to an industrial establishment which he had prepared for their reception.