| verb | get something; come into possession of “receive payment” |
| verb | receive a specified treatment (abstract) “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation” |
| verb | register (perceptual input) “pick up a signal” |
| verb | go through (mental or physical states or experiences) “get an idea” |
| verb | express willingness to have in one's home or environs “The community warmly received the refugees” |
| verb | accept as true or valid “He received Christ” |
| verb | bid welcome to; greet upon arrival |
| verb | convert into sounds or pictures “receive the incoming radio signals” |
| verb | experience as a reaction “My proposal met with much opposition” |
| verb | have or give a reception “The lady is receiving Sunday morning” |
| verb | receive as a retribution or punishment “He got 5 years in prison” |
| verb | partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament |
| verb | regard favorably or with disapproval “Her new collection of poems was not well received” |
| reception | noun | the act of receiving |
| receiver | noun | a person who receives something |
| recipient | noun | a person who receives something |
| receptive | adjective | of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system |
| receptor | noun | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
| experience | noun | an event as apprehended |
| invitation | noun | a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something |
| welcomer | noun | a person who greets |