Verb

(receiv)

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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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.

Verb

(submitt)

To yield or give way to another.

They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

I submit these plans for your approval.

* Macaulay

We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.

(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.

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"[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."

(obsolete) To let down; to lower.

* Dryden

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

(obsolete) To put or place under.

* Chapman

The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.