different between receive vs advisee
receive
English
Alternative forms
- receave, receyve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English receiven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipi?, past participle receptus (“to take back, get back, regain, recover, take to oneself, admit, accept, receive, take in, assume, allow, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capi? (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -f?n), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þi??an), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???si?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
- Hyphenation: re?ceive
Verb
receive (third-person singular simple present receives, present participle receiving, simple past and past participle received)
- To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
- To incur (an injury).
- To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
- (tennis, badminton, squash (sport)) To be in a position to hit back a service.
- (American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
- (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- RX (abbreviation)
Related terms
Translations
Noun
receive (plural receives)
- (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
- 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification (page 71)
- In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
- 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification (page 71)
Further reading
- receive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- receive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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advisee
English
Etymology
advise +? -ee
Noun
advisee (plural advisees)
- someone who receives advice
See also
- adviser, advisor
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