Incur vs Receive - What's the difference?
incur | receive |
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",
* 1910 , ,
(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.
* 1861 , ,
(obsolete) To enter or pass into.
(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
* Chapman
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.
*, I.57:
*:I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.
As verbs the difference between incur and receive
is that incur is to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to while receive is to take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.As a noun receive is
an operation in which data is received.incur
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Alternative forms
* encurVerb
(incurr)- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
- Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.
Synonyms
* (To bring down or expose oneself to) encounter, contract * (render liable or subject to) occasionAnagrams
*receive
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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.}}