different between receive vs receipt

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)

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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

From Middle English receipt, receyt, receite, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipi?, itself from re- (“back”) + capi? (“I take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???si?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

receipt (countable and uncountable, plural receipts)

1. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

   A balance payable on receipt of the goods.
2. (obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.

   • And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite […].

3. (in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.

4. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
5. (usually in the plural) (A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
   • 2020: Lindsey Wisniewski, "Darius Slay's Wikipedia page edited to claim DK Metcalf as his father", NBC Sports (December 1, 2020):

     "Oh yes, the Internet trolls went there, and we've got the receipts".
6. (Internet slang, usually in the plural, by extension) (A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing or problematic behavior or statements.
7. (archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century) A recipe, instructions, prescription.
8. (obsolete) A receptacle.
9. (obsolete) A revenue office.
10. (obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
11. (obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.
    • 1644, John Evelyn, diary entry 21 October, 1644

      It has become a place of great receipt.

12. (obsolete) A recess; a retired place.

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Translations

See also

• docket

References

Verb

receipt (third-person singular simple present receipts, present participle receipting, simple past and past participle receipted)

1. To give or write a receipt (for something).

2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

Translations

See also

• rcpt
• sales slip

Anagrams

• picrete