English Dictionary

receive

/ɹɪˈsiːv/

verb

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something. / (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

I receive a gift from my friend.

意味（1）

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

She received many presents for her birthday.

意味（2）

(law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

To incur (an injury).

I received a bloody nose from the collision.

意味（5）

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, and of tables.

意味（6）

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

意味（7）

(tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.

意味（8）

(American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

意味（9）

(transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.

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