receivre.html - See: WITH OPEN ARMS.

receivre.html - v.tr.
1 take or accept (something offered or given) into one's hands or possession.
2 acquire; be provided with or given (have received no news; will receive a small fee).
3 accept delivery of (something sent).
4 have conferred or inflicted on one (received many honours; received a heavy blow on the head).
5 a stand the force or weight of. b bear up against; encounter with opposition.
6 consent to hear (a confession or oath) or consider (a petition).
7 (also absol.) accept or have dealings with (stolen property knowing of the theft).
8 admit; consent or prove able to hold; provide accommodation for (received many visitors).
9 (of a receptacle) be able to hold (a specified amount or contents).
10 greet or welcome, esp. in a specified manner (how did they receive your offer?).
11 entertain as a guest etc.
12 admit to membership of a society, organization, etc.
13 be marked more or less permanently with (an impression etc.).
14 convert (broadcast signals) into sound or pictures.
15 Tennis be the player to whom the server serves (the ball).
16 (often as received adj.) give credit to; accept as authoritative or true (received opinion).
17 eat or drink (the Eucharistic bread and wine).

be at (or on) the receiving end colloq. bear the brunt of something unpleasant. received pronunciation (or Received Standard) the form of spoken English based on educated speech in southern England. receiving-order Brit. an order of a court authorizing a receiver (see RECEIVER 3) to act.

receivable adj. [ME f. OF receivre, re

oivre f. L recipere recept- (as RE-, capere take)]

receivre.html - n.
1 a person or thing that receives.
2 the part of a machine or instrument that receives sound, signals, etc. (esp. the part of a telephone that contains the earpiece).
3 (in full official receiver) a person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt or insane person, or property under litigation.
4 a radio or television receiving apparatus.
5 a person who receives stolen goods.
6 Chem. a vessel for collecting the products of distillation, chromatography, etc.

receivre.html - n.
1 the office of official receiver.
2 the state of being dealt with by a receiver ( esp. in receivership).

receivre.html - See: WITH OPEN ARMS.

receivre.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 the act or an instance of receiving or being received into one's possession (will pay on receipt of the goods).
2 a written acknowledgement of this, esp. of the payment of money.
3 (usu. in pl.) an amount of money etc. received.
4 archaic a recipe.

--v.

tr. place a written or printed receipt on (a bill). [ME receit(e) f. AF & ONF receite, OF reúoite, recete f. med.L recepta fem. past part. of L recipere RECEIVE: -p- inserted after L]