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    re·ceive
    [rəˈsēv]
    verb
    receiving (present participle)
    1. be given, presented with, or paid (something):
      "she received her prize from the manager" · "most businesses will receive a tax cut"
      Opposite:
    2. suffer, experience, or be subject to (specified treatment):
      "the event received wide press coverage" · "she received only cuts and bruises" · "he received an eight-year prison sentence"
    3. greet or welcome (a visitor) formally:
      "representatives of the club will be received by the Mayor"
      • be visited by:
        "she was not allowed to receive visitors"
        Similar:
        be at home to
      • admit as a member:
        "hundreds of converts were received into the Church"
    4. form (an idea or impression) as a result of perception or experience:
      "the impression she received was one of unhurried leisure"
    5. detect or pick up (broadcast signals):
      "Turkish television began to be received in Tashkent"
    6. serve as a receptacle for:
      "the basin that receives your blood"
    7. (in tennis and similar games) be the player to whom the server serves (the ball).
    8. (in Christian services) eat or drink (the Eucharistic bread or wine):
      "he received Communion and left"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French receivre, based on Latin recipere, from re- ‘back’ + capere ‘take’.
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