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receive
What does receive mean?
receive (verb): get something; come into possession of.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use receive in a sentence?
- Receive payment. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce receive?
/ɹəˈsiv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does receive come from?
From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to receive
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “receive” mean?
to make a loud, hollow, resonant sound
Not quite: that's what boom means.
regard something as probable or likely
Not quite: that's what expect means.
get something; come into possession of
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to transport toward somebody/somewhere
Not quite: that's what bring means.
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