receive
pronunciation
How to pronounce receive in British English:
UK [rɪˈsiːv]
How to pronounce receive in American English:
US [rɪˈsiːv]
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- Verb:
- get something; come into possession of
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- recieve (perceptual input)
- of mental or physical states or experiences
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- accept as true or valid
- bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
- convert into sounds or pictures
- experience as a reaction
- have or give a reception
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
- regard favorably or with disapproval
Word Origin
- receive
- receive: [13] To receive something is etymologically to ‘take it back’. The word comes via Old French receivre from Latin recipere ‘regain’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and capere ‘take’ (source of English capture). Other English descendants of recipere are receipt [14] (which goes back to medieval Latin recepta, a noun use of the verb’s feminine past participle), receptacle [15], reception [14], recipe, and recipient [16].=> captive, capture, receptacle, recipe
- receive (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old North French receivre (Old French recoivre) "seize, take hold of, pick up; welcome, accept," from Latin recipere "regain, take back, bring back, carry back, recover; take to oneself, take in, admit," from re- "back," though the exact sense here is obscure (see re-) + -cipere, comb. form of capere "to take" (see capable). Radio and (later) television sense is attested from 1908. Related: Received; receiving.
Example
- 1. When did you receive your first e-mail ?
- 2. Users input tracks and receive recommendations .
- 3. They will receive readiness training and defense ideological education .
- 4. They will also receive help from experts .
- 5. Some children taught at home undoubtedly receive a poor education .