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Verb receive has 13 senses
- receive, have - get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
 
--1 is one way to get, acquire 
Sample sentences: 
The banks receive the check 
They receive the money  
They receive more bread 
 - 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"
 
--2 is one way to change 
Sample sentence: 
 Something ----s 
 - pick up, receive - recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
 
--3 is one way to perceive, comprehend 
Sample sentence: 
They receive the information to them 
 - experience, receive, have, get, undergo - of 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"
 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
 - receive, take in, invite - express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
 
Sample sentence: 
Sam cannot receive Sue  
 - receive - accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
 
--6 is one way to accept 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
- welcome, receive - bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
 
--7 is one way to greet, recognize, recognise 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
 - receive - convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
 
--8 is one way to convert 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - meet, encounter, receive - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
 
--9 is one way to have, experience 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
 - receive - have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
 
--10 is one way to celebrate, fete 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s 
          => Somebody ----s somebody 
 - get, receive - receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison"
 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - receive - partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
 
--12 is one way to partake, touch 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s 
 Somebody ----s something 
- receive - regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
 
--13 is one way to see, consider, reckon, view, regard 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
    
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