Definition of receive

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Receive (v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive..

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Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
Guest :: Guest (v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.
Tollhouse :: Tollhouse (n.) A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
Huzza :: Huzza (v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas.
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump..
Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
Teachable :: Teachable (a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile..
Factitive :: Factitive (a.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine..
Fence :: Fence (n.) A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received..
Receive :: Receive (v. t.) 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..
Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
Sun :: Sun (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000..
Beneficial :: Beneficial (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate..
Pleximeter :: Pleximeter (n.) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion..
Gomphosis :: Gomphosis (n.) A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws..
Undine :: Undine (n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Cash :: Cash (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order..
Invoice :: Invoice (n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods..
Order :: Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Ostension :: Ostension (n.) The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.
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