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receive
Overview of verb receive
The verb receive has 13 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (123) receive, have -- (get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front")
2. (27) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")
3. (25) pick up, receive -- (register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal")
4. (22) experience, receive, have, get, undergo -- (go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling")
5. (16) receive, take in, invite -- (express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees")
6. (8) receive -- (accept as true or valid; "He received Christ")
7. (2) welcome, receive -- (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival)
8. (2) receive -- (convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals")
9. (1) meet, encounter, receive -- (experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition")
10. receive -- (have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning")
11. get, receive -- (receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison")
12. receive -- (partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament)
13. receive -- (regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received")
Grep of noun receive
receiver
receiver-creditor relation
receivership
Antonyms of verb receive
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb receive
13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
=> get, acquire
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 3
pick up, receive
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 4
experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
Sense 6
receive
=> accept
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 7
welcome, receive
=> greet, recognize, recognise
=> address, accost, come up to
=> come, come up
=> travel, go, move, locomote
Sense 8
receive
=> convert
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
=> have, experience
=> change
Sense 10
receive
=> celebrate, fete
=> meet, get together
Sense 11
get, receive
Sense 12
receive
=> partake, touch
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sense 13
receive
=> see, consider, reckon, view, regard
=> think, believe, consider, conceive
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb receive
5 of 13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
=> take in, take up
=> accept
=> fence
=> graduate
=> inherit
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> take
Sense 3
pick up, receive
=> hear
Sense 4
experience, receive, have, get, undergo
=> respire
=> labor, labour
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> take
=> horripilate
Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
=> welcome
=> absorb
=> see
=> assume
=> induct
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb receive
13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
=> get, acquire
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 3
pick up, receive
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 4
experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
Sense 6
receive
=> accept
Sense 7
welcome, receive
=> greet, recognize, recognise
Sense 8
receive
=> convert
Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
=> have, experience
Sense 10
receive
=> celebrate, fete
Sense 11
get, receive
Sense 12
receive
=> partake, touch
Sense 13
receive
=> see, consider, reckon, view, regard
'Cause To' of verb receive
Derived Forms of verb receive
8 of 13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
RELATED TO>(noun) reception#4
=> reception, receipt
RELATED TO>(noun) receiver#4
=> recipient, receiver
RELATED TO>(noun) recipient#1
=> recipient, receiver
Sense 3
pick up, receive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#3
=> centripetal, receptive, sensory(prenominal)
RELATED TO>(noun) receiver#1
=> receiver, receiving system
RELATED TO>(noun) receptor#2
=> sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor
Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#1
=> receptive
Sense 6
receive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#1
=> receptive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#2
=> receptive, open
Sense 8
receive
RELATED TO>(noun) receiver#1
=> receiver, receiving system
Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#1
=> receptive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#2
=> receptive, open
Sense 10
receive
RELATED TO>(noun) reception#2
=> reception
Sense 13
receive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#1
=> receptive
RELATED TO>(adj) receptive#2
=> receptive, open
Domain of verb receive
1 of 13 senses of receive
Sense 12
receive
TOPIC>(noun) Christianity#1, Christian religion#1
Domain Terms of verb receive
Familiarity of verb receive
receive used as a verb is familiar (polysemy count =13)
Sample Sentences of verb receive
13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
EX: The banks receive the check
EX: They receive the money
EX: They receive more bread
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
*> Something ----s
Sense 3
pick up, receive
EX: They receive the information to them
Sense 4
experience, receive, have, get, undergo
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
EX: Sam cannot receive Sue
Sense 6
receive
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 7
welcome, receive
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 8
receive
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 10
receive
*> Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 11
get, receive
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 12
receive
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 13
receive
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb receive
10 of 13 senses of receive
Sense 1
receive, have
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 3
pick up, receive
> perceive, comprehend
=> feel, sense
=> apperceive
=> pick up, receive
=> divine
=> hallucinate
=> misperceive
=> catch, pick up
=> dream
=> hurt, ache, suffer
=> smell
=> touch
=> see
=> sight
=> hear
=> listen
=> taste
=> find
=> see through
Sense 6
receive
> accept
=> acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know
=> espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> believe
=> receive
=> approbate
=> resign, reconcile, submit
=> acknowledge
=> take a bow
=> respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe
Sense 7
welcome, receive
> greet, recognize, recognise
=> shake hands
=> curtsy, bob
=> salute
=> salute, present
=> salute
=> hail, herald
=> welcome, receive
=> say farewell
=> wish, bid
Sense 8
receive
> convert
=> caramelize, caramelise
=> rasterize
=> verbalize, verbalise
=> sporulate
=> novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise
=> deaden
=> opalize, opalise
=> receive
=> reconvert
=> malt
=> malt
=> feudalize
=> ferment, work
=> transition
=> transcribe
=> scrap
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> diazotize
=> hay
=> lignify
=> mineralize
=> mineralize
=> ozonize
=> slag
=> sulfate
=> cutinize
=> duplex
Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
> have, experience
=> meet, encounter, receive
Sense 10
receive
> celebrate, fete
=> jubilate
=> revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail
=> party
=> receive
Sense 12
receive
> partake, touch
=> receive
Sense 13
receive
> see, consider, reckon, view, regard
=> expect
=> receive
=> reconsider
=> reconsider
=> include
=> consider
=> call
=> like
=> relativize, relativise
=> identify
=> favor, favour
=> abstract
=> reify
=> idealize, idealise
=> deem, hold, view as, take for
=> respect, esteem, value, prize, prise
=> disrespect, disesteem
=> make
=> capitalize, capitalise
=> prize, value, treasure, appreciate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb receive
Sense 1
receive, have
=> get, acquire
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Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
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Sense 3
pick up, receive
=> perceive, comprehend
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Sense 4
experience, receive, have, get, undergo
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Sense 5
receive, take in, invite
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Sense 6
receive
=> accept
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Sense 7
welcome, receive
=> greet, recognize, recognise
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Sense 8
receive
=> convert
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Sense 9
meet, encounter, receive
=> have, experience
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Sense 10
receive
=> celebrate, fete
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Sense 11
get, receive
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Sense 12
receive
=> partake, touch
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Sense 13
receive
=> see, consider, reckon, view, regard
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Grep of verb receive
receive
Grep of adj receive
received
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