Income vs Receive - What's the difference?
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Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.
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, title= (label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
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A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
(label) An entrance-fee.
(label) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
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A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Our hearts receive your warnings.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.
*(Bible), viii.64:
*:The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.
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, title= To take possession of.
To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
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*(Bible), (w) xxviii.2:
*:They kindled a fire, and received us every one.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
To suffer from (an injury).
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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
*(Bible), (w) vii.4:
*:Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots.
(lb) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
(lb) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
# To be in a position to hit back a service.
#(lb) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
To accept into the mind; to understand.
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*:I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.
As nouns the difference between income and receive
is that income is money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise|capitalising on the work of others while receive is (telecommunications) an operation in which data is received.As a verb receive is
to take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc; to accept; to be given something.income
English
(wikipedia income)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}
Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):
- In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
- more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
- (Shakespeare)
- I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.
Anagrams
*receive
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(receiv)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
