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What does receive mean? Is receive a Scrabble word?

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Is receive a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word receive is a Scrabble US word. The word receive is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

R1E1C3E1I1V4E1

Is receive a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word receive is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

R1E1C3E1I1V4E1

Is receive a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word receive is a Words With Friends word. The word receive is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1C4E1I1V5E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

RECEIVE,

5-letter words (5 found)

EERIE,REEVE,REIVE,REVIE,RIEVE,

4-letter words (14 found)

CERE,CIRE,CIVE,CREE,EREV,ERIC,EVER,ICER,RICE,RIVE,VEER,VICE,VIER,VIRE,

3-letter words (11 found)

CEE,ERE,EVE,ICE,IRE,REC,REE,REI,REV,VEE,VIE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EE,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from receive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of receive

receive

Alternative forms

  • receave, receyve (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English receiven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv
  • Hyphenation: re‧ceive

Verb

receive (third-person singular simple present receives, present participle receiving, simple past and past participle received)

  1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
  2. (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
  3. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
  4. To incur (an injury).
  5. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
  6. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
  7. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
    1. (tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.
    2. (American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
  8. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.

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Noun

receive (plural receives)

  1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

Further reading

  • “receive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “receive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org