Definition of: receive

(ri·sēv′) v. ·ceived, ·ceiv·ing v.t.
1. To take into one's hand or possession (something given, offered, delivered, etc.); acquire; accept.
2. To gain knowledge or information of: He received the news at breakfast.
3. To take from another by hearing or listening: The king received his oath of fealty.
4. To bear; support: These columns receive the weight of the building.
5. To experience; meet with: to receive abuse.
6. To undergo; suffer: He received a wound in his arm.
7. To intercept or encounter the force of (a blow, etc.).
8. To contain; hold.
9. To allow entrance to; admit to one's presence; greet.
10. To perceive mentally; understand.
11. To accept as true, proven, authoritative, etc.
—v.i.
12. To be a recipient; get, obtain, or acquire something from some other person or source.
13. To welcome visitors or callers.
14. To partake of the Eucharist.
15. Telecom. To convert incoming radio waves into intelligible sounds or shapes, as a radio or television receiving set. See synonyms under ACCOMMODATE, GET, OBTAIN. [<OF receivre <L recipere <re- back + capere take]