receive

1. (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.Examples: "He received many presents for his birthday."; "Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets."; "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on "direct marketing"—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result."transitive

2. (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.Examples: "He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it."; "Our hearts receiue your warnings."; "The idea of solidity we receive by our touch."datedtransitive

3. (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

4. (transitive) To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.Examples: "to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc."; "And the barbarous people ſhewed vs no little kindneſſe: for they kindled a fire, and receiued us euery one becauſe of the preſent raine, and becauſe of the cold."; "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass. [...] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance; they were received with distance and suspicion."Synonyms: havetransitive

5. (transitive) To incur (an injury).Examples: "I received a bloody nose from the collision."; "But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground [...]"transitive

6. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.