Definition of reception

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Reception (n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence..

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Recommendation :: Recommendation (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations..
Vogue :: Vogue (n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue..
Welcome :: Welcome (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome..
Introreception :: Introreception (n.) The act of admitting into or within.
Slot :: Slot (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it..
Countersink :: Countersink (v. t.) To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw..
Entertainment :: Entertainment (n.) The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general..
Dock :: Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide..
Welcomeness :: Welcomeness (n.) The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
Drawing-room :: Drawing-room (n.) A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
Salon :: Salon (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society..
Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead..
Spekehouse :: Spekehouse (n.) The parlor or reception room of a convent.
Currency :: Currency (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes..
Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy..
Entertain :: Entertain (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest..
Intro- :: Intro- () A prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic..
File :: File (v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
Deadhouse :: Deadhouse (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
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