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RECEIVE
- to accept (to receive with favour) [v RECEIVED, RECEIVING, RECEIVES]
- to come into possession of acquire receive a gift
- act as a receptacle or container for the cistern receives water from the roof
- assimilate through the mind or senses receive new ideas
- permit to enter admit
- react to in a specified manner
- accept as authoritative, true, or accurate believe
- support the weight or pressure of bear
- take (a mark or impression) from the weight of something some clay receives clear impressions
- quire experience received his early schooling at home
- suffer the hurt or injury of received a broken nose
- be a recipient
- to come into possession of [v RECEIVED, RECEIVES, RECEIVING]
- be at home to visitors receives on Tuesdays
- convert incoming radio waves into perceptible signals
- prepare to take possession of the ball from a kick in football