Receive vs Deliver - What's the difference?
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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.
To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
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, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}
To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
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, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
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, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
As verbs the difference between receive and deliver
is that receive is to take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something while deliver is to set free.As a noun receive
is an operation in which data is received.receive
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* (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.}}
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* 1000 English basic wordsdeliver
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* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}
- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)