Receive vs. Get

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;

Getverb

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Getverb

(transitive) To receive.

Getverb

To have. See usage notes.

Getverb

(copulative) To become.

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.

Getverb

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to do.

Getverb

To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

Getverb

(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

Getverb

(intransitive) To begin (doing something).

Getverb

(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

Getverb

(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

Getverb

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

Getverb

To understand. get it}}

Getverb

To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

Getverb

(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.

Getverb

(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

Getverb

To catch out, trick successfully.

Getverb

To perplex, stump.

Getverb

(transitive) To find as an answer.

Getverb

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

Getverb

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

Getverb

(transitive) To getter.

Getverb

To beget (of a father).

Getverb

(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

Getverb

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

Getverb

Go away; get lost.

Getverb

(euphemism) To kill.

Getverb

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Getnoun

(dated) Offspring.

Getnoun

Lineage.

Getnoun

A difficult return or block of a shot.

Getnoun

Something gained.

Getnoun

A git.

Getnoun

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Getnoun

Jet, the mineral.

Getnoun

Fashion; manner; custom.

Getnoun

Artifice; contrivance.

Getnoun

Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

Getnoun

A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce.

Getverb

To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

Getverb

Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

Getverb

To beget; to procreate; to generate.

Getverb

To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

Getverb

To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

Getverb

To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; - with a following participle.

Getverb

To betake; to remove; - in a reflexive use.

Getverb

To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

Getverb

To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; - with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

Getverb

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;

Getverb

enter or assume a certain state or condition;

Getverb

cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;

Getverb

receive a specified treatment (abstract);

Getverb

reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;

Getverb

go or come after and bring or take back;

Getverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

Getverb

take vengeance on or get even;

Getverb

achieve a point or goal;

Getverb

cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;

Getverb

succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

Getverb

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

Getverb

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

Getverb

communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone;

Getverb

give certain properties to something;

Getverb

move into a desired direction of discourse;

Getverb

grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

Getverb

attract and fix;

Getverb

reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

Getverb

reach by calculation;

Getverb

acquire as a result of some effort or action;

Getverb

purchase;

Getverb

perceive by hearing;

Getverb

suffer from the receipt of;

Getverb

receive as a retribution or punishment;

Getverb

leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;

Getverb

reach and board;

Getverb

irritate;

Getverb

evoke an emotional response;

Getverb

apprehend and reproduce accurately;

Getverb

in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Getverb

overcome or destroy;

Getverb

be a mystery or bewildering to;

Getverb

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;

Getverb

undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

Getverb

make children;

Getverb

come to have (something); receive

Getverb

experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)

Getverb

receive as a punishment or penalty

Getverb

contract (a disease or ailment)

Getverb

succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

Getverb

move in order to pick up or bring (something); fetch

Getverb

prepare (a meal)

Getverb

tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation

Getverb

travel by or catch (a bus, train, or other form of transport)

Getverb

obtain (a figure or answer) as a result of calculation.

Getverb

make contact with, especially by telephone

Getverb

respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)

Getverb

used to draw attention to someone whom one regards as pretentious or vain

Getverb

reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

Getverb

used with past participle to form the passive mood

Getverb

cause to be treated in a specified way

Getverb

induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something

Getverb

have the opportunity to do

Getverb

begin to be or do something, especially gradually or by chance

Getverb

come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty

Getverb

move or come into a specified position, situation, or state

Getverb

succeed in making (someone or something) come, go, or move somewhere

Getverb

reach a specified point or stage

Getverb

see have

Getverb

catch or apprehend (someone)

Getverb

strike or wound (someone) with a blow or missile

Getverb

punish, injure, or kill (someone), especially as retribution

Getverb

be punished, injured, or killed

Getverb

be appropriately punished or rewarded

Getverb

annoy (someone) greatly

Getverb

baffle (someone)

Getverb

understand (an argument or the person making it)

Getverb

acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

Getnoun

an animal's offspring.

Getnoun

a person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.