receive

To be given, sent, or paid something.

He received many presents for his birthday.

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.

To take, as something that is offered; to accept.

He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.

Our hearts receiue your warnings.

To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

And the barbarous people ſhewed vs no little kindneſſe: for they kindled a fire, and receiued us euery one becauſe of the preſent raine, and becauſe of the cold.

To incur (an injury).

I received a bloody nose from the collision.

But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground [...]

An operation in which data is received.

In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]