Interreceive :: Interreceive (v. t.) To receive between or within.

Misreceive :: Misreceive (v. t.) To receive wrongly.

Receivability :: Receivability (n.) The quality of being receivable; receivableness.

Receivable :: Receivable (a.) Capable of being received.

Receive :: Receive (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..

Receive :: Receive (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..

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

Receive :: Receive (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..

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

Receive :: Receive (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..

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

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

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

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

Received :: Received (imp. & p. p.) of Receiv.

Receivedness :: Receivedness (n.) The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) 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..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) 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..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter..

Receivership :: Receivership (n.) The state or office of a receiver.

Receiving :: Receiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Receiv.

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