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- English Word Receive Definition To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
- English Word Receive Definition To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
- English Word Receive Definition To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
- English Word Receive Definition To bat back (the ball) when served.
- English Word Receive Definition To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
- English Word Receive Definition To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
- English Word Received Definition of Receive
- English Word Receivedness Definition The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
- English Word Receiver Definition One who takes or receives in any manner.
- English Word Receiver Definition A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.
- English Word Receiver Definition One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
- English Word Receiver Definition A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
- English Word Receiver Definition A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
- English Word Receiver Definition The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
- English Word Receiver Definition A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
- English Word Receiver Definition A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
- English Word Receiver Definition That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
- English Word Receivership Definition The state or office of a receiver.
- English Word Receiving Definition of Receive
- English Word Recelebrate Definition To celebrate again, or anew.
- English Word Recency Definition The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
- English Word Recense Definition To review; to revise.
- English Word Recension Definition The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
- English Word Recension Definition Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
- English Word Recension Definition The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
- English Word Recensionist Definition One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.
- English Word Recent Definition Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
- English Word Recent Definition Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
- English Word Recenter Definition To center again; to restore to the center.
- English Word Recently Definition Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.