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Definition of Receive

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. Related Definitions: Able, Accept, Acceptance, Admission, Admit, Admittance, Affected, Allow, Ambassador, An, And, As, Assent, At, Back, Ball, Bat, Be, Blow, By, Capacity, Committed, Company, Contain, Credence, Custom, Damage, Debt, Embrace, Enter, For, From, Gain, Gift, Give, Given, Goods, Have, Hence, Hold, Home, House, In, Into, Is, It, Knowledge, Known, Letter, Like, Lodger, Message, Messenger, Mind, Money, Notion, Of, Offered, On, One, Opinion, Or, Paid, Pain, Payment, Permit, Pleasure, Presence, Receive, Return, Sent, Served, She, Something, Stolen, Subjected, Suffer, Take, That, The, Thief, To, Tradition, Turn, Visitor, When, Wound, Your

Receive Quotations You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive. James Stephens The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. Benjamin Franklin All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther For it is in giving that we receive. St. Francis of Assisi Even a poor man can receive honors. Sophocles

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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