Examples: receive payment receive a gift receive letters from the front
Examples: 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
Examples: pick up a signal
Examples: get an idea experience vertigo get nauseous receive injuries have a feeling
Examples: The community warmly received the refugees
Examples: He received Christ
Examples: receive the incoming radio signals
Examples: My proposal met with much opposition
Examples: The lady is receiving Sunday morning
Examples: He got 5 years in prison
Examples: Her new collection of poems was not well received
Examples: standard English received standard English is sometimes called the King's English
Examples: a received moral idea Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise
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