different between receive vs intercept

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)

1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
2. (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
3. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
4. To incur (an injury).
5. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
6. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
7. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
   1. (tennis, badminton, squash (sport)) To be in a position to hit back a service.
   2. (American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• RX (abbreviation)

Related terms

Translations

Noun

receive (plural receives)

1. (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 […]

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipi?.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt?s?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?nt?rs?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n't?s?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?rs?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Verb

intercept (third-person singular simple present intercepts, present participle intercepting, simple past and past participle intercepted)

1. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
2. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game
   1. (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.

Translations

Noun

intercept (plural intercepts)

1. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
3. An interception of a missile.
4. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
   • 2012, Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations, page 278

     Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

5. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

Derived terms

• interceptor

Translations

See also

• (an interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call): bug