Receive

v. get, accept; absorb, take in; host, accommodate

Receiver may mean: Communication The listening device part of a telephoneThe handset containing that deviceReceiver (radio), an electronic device that converts a radio signal from a transmitter into useful informationReceiver (modulated ultrasound), a device that converts a modulated ultrasound signal into useful informationReceiver (hearing aids), a transducer in hearing aids responsible for converting the electric input signal into an acoustic output signal; see also hearing aidReceiver (information theory), the receiving end of a communications channelIn communications and information processing, a receiver is the recipient (observer) of a message (information), which is sent from a source (object). Receivers decode messages.Digital media receiverAV receiver
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Verb
1. get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
(synonym) have
(hypernym) get, acquire
(hyponym) take in, take up
(verb-group) accept, take, have
(derivation) reception, receipt
2. receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
(synonym) get, find, obtain, incur
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) take
(verb-group) get, acquire
3. recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
(synonym) pick up
(hypernym) perceive, comprehend
(hyponym) hear
(derivation) receiver, receiving system
4. of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
(synonym) experience, have, get, undergo
(hyponym) respire
(entail) perceive, comprehend
5. express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
(synonym) take in, invite
(hyponym) welcome
6. accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
(hypernym) accept
7. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
(synonym) welcome
(hypernym) greet, recognize, recognise
8. convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
(hypernym) convert
(derivation) receiver, receiving system
9. experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
(synonym) meet, encounter
(hypernym) have, experience
10. have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
(hypernym) celebrate, fete
(derivation) reception
11. receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison"
(synonym) get
(verb-group) catch, get
12. partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
(hypernym) partake, touch
(classification) Christianity, Christian religion
13. regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
(hypernym) see, consider, reckon, view, regard

(v. t.)
To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
  

(v. t.)
To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
  

(v. t.)
To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
  

(v. t.)
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.
  

(v. t.)
To bat back (the ball) when served.
  

(v. t.)
To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
  

(v. t.)
To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
  

(v. t.)
Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
  

(v. i.)
To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
  

(v. i.)
To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
  

To get, accept, take, or acquire; to be a recipient.

Voluntarily to take from another what is offered. A landlord, for example, could not be said to receive the key from his tenant, when the latter left it at his house without his knowledge, unless by his acts afterwards, he should be presumed to have given his consent.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.