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Adjective received has 2 senses
- standard, received - conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)
- accepted, received - widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist
Antonym: unconventional (indirect, via conventional)
Antonym: unconventional (indirect, via conventional)
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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