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🎁 To get 👏 To be given 📡 To get signals 🤝 To welcome ✅ To accept as true ✝️ To take Communion
to receive

to receive

271 2.2
To take in signals or information
  • verb
  • /rɪˈsiːv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recibir
  • In addition to tax revenues, the Miami-Dade Trust receives and manages grants from HUD and state agencies.
  • send and receive
  • receive signals
  • receive information

So do they know how we're receiving those signals?

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Examples

  • Commercial telephone lines can be used to make and receive calls to anywhere in the world.

    Academic text (1990)

  • So do they know how we're receiving those signals?

    Tom Bilyeu

  • So suppose that you receive a message over the Internet.

  • And so it was still able to receive the cell phone signal.

  • Most of the signals we receive are just noise, OK?

  • For many of these applications, our interactive interface allows the user to receive feedback in seconds.

    Academic text (2011)

  • It will not go out, but it can receive signals from the outside.

  • If you're receiving this transmission, respond in any way you can.

    Darkside (2022)

  • All smartphones are able to receive short-range, low-powered signals over the Bluetooth protocol.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Most modern smartphones can receive text messages quickly and efficiently.

Synonyms

to pick up
vsto receive
∞ 2.6

To learn or notice something often by chance

is a formal technical action by devices to register or convert signals

Antonyms

to transmit
73 3.7

To send out a radio or TV program so people can receive it

Phrasal Verbs

to receive a compliment
1 2.3

To get praise from someone for something you did

How Sensitive

to capture
  • Specialized
211 3.3
to detect
763 3.2
to receive
  • Specialized
271 2.2
to register
  • Specialized
66 4.6
to miss
158 1.3

Surface Forms

receive infinitive
received past
received past participle
receiving present participle
receives third person singular

Morphology

receive = re + ceive

The apparent prefix 're-' and root 'ceive' are from Latin combining forms; 'ceive' is not a standalone English word and the prefix does not function transparently for learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from the parts.

Etymology

Receive comes from Latin recipere, from re- 'back' and capere 'to take', which gives the image of 'taking in' a signal. That is why machines or nerves that detect signals are said to receive them.