Definition of Receive

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Receive

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.

To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.

To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.

To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.

To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

To bat back (the ball) when served.

To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.

To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

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Receive Quotations

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne Dyer

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Wayne Dyer

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Benjamin Franklin

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

Receive Translations

receive in Afrikaans is neem, ontvang, bekom, kry, aanneem, aanvaar
receive in Danish is modtage
receive in Dutch is aanvaarden, aannemen, accepteren
receive in Finnish is saada, ottaa vastaan
receive in French is phagocyter, admettre, receler, recelent, recevons
receive in German is retten, erhalten, erhalten
receive in Italian is fagocitare, accettare, ricevere, ottengo
receive in Latin is admitto, accipio, concipio, accipio, suscipio
receive in Norwegian is godta
receive in Portuguese is receba, receber, aceitar
receive in Spanish is recibir, acoger, conservar, tomar, obtener, asumir

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