Accept vs. Receive

Acceptverb

(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To endure patiently.

Acceptverb

To agree to pay.

Acceptverb

(transitive) To receive officially.

Acceptverb

(intransitive) To receive something willingly.

Acceptadjective

(obsolete) Accepted.

Acceptverb

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; - often followed by of.

Acceptverb

To receive with favor; to approve.

Acceptverb

To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

Acceptverb

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

Acceptverb

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

Acceptverb

In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

Acceptadjective

Accepted.

Acceptverb

consider or hold as true;

Acceptverb

receive willingly something given or offered;

Acceptverb

give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;

Acceptverb

react favorably to; consider right and proper;

Acceptverb

admit into a group or community;

Acceptverb

take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;

Acceptverb

tolerate or accommodate oneself to;

Acceptverb

be designed to hold or take;

Acceptverb

of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

Acceptverb

make use of or accept for some purpose;

Acceptverb

be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;

Receiveverb

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

Receiveverb

To take possession of.

Receiveverb

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

Receiveverb

To incur (an injury).

Receiveverb

To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

Receiveverb

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

Receiveverb

(sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

Receiveverb

To be in a position to hit back a service.

Receiveverb

(American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

Receiveverb

To accept into the mind; to understand.

Receivenoun

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

Receiveverb

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

Receiveverb

Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.

Receiveverb

To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.

Receiveverb

To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

Receiveverb

To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.

Receiveverb

To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.

Receiveverb

To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

Receiveverb

To bat back (the ball) when served.

Receiveverb

To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.

Receiveverb

To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

Receiveverb

get something; come into possession of;

Receiveverb

receive a specified treatment (abstract);

Receiveverb

recieve (perceptual input);

Receiveverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

Receiveverb

express willingness to have in one's home or environs;

Receiveverb

accept as true or valid;

Receiveverb

bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

Receiveverb

convert into sounds or pictures;

Receiveverb

experience as a reaction;

Receiveverb

have or give a reception;

Receiveverb

receive as a retribution or punishment;

Receiveverb

partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

Receiveverb

regard favorably or with disapproval;