different between receive vs reception

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 Middle French reception, from Latin recepti? (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipi? (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capi? (“I hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?p.?n?/

Noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

1. The act of receiving.
2. (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

   We have poor TV reception in the valley.

   The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

   After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

4. A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

   The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
5. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
6. (Britain, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
7. (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
8. (American football) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• (desk where guests are received): front desk

Derived terms

• reception center, reception centre
• reception desk
• receptionist
• reception room

Related terms

• receptacle
• receptive
• receptible
• receptor
• receive

Translations

Anagrams

• pre-notice, prenotice

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French réception, English reception, from Latin receptio.

Noun

reception c

1. a reception, a front desk
2. a reception, a social welcoming event

Declension

Synonyms

• intagning (i en orden)
• mottagning
• vakt