receive in WordNet English dictionary

1. experience as a reaction
   "My proposal met with much opposition"
   meet  encounter  receive 
   
2. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
   experience  receive  have  get 
   
3. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
   receive  get  find  obtain  incur 
   
4. receive as a retribution or punishment
   "He got 5 years in prison"
   get  receive 
   
5. get something; come into possession of
   "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
   receive  have 
   
6. express willingness to have in one's home or environs
   "The community warmly received the refugees"
   receive  take in  invite 
   
7. register (perceptual input)
   "pick up a signal"
   pick up  receive 
   
8. convert into sounds or pictures
   "receive the incoming radio signals"
   receive 
   
9. accept as true or valid
   "He received Christ"
   receive 
   
10. regard favorably or with disapproval
    "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
    receive 
    
11. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
    welcome  receive 
    
12. partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
    receive 
    
13. have or give a reception
    "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
    receive