verb

• (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
  "He received many presents for his birthday."
• (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.
  "He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it."
• (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
• (transitive) 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."

noun

• (telecommunications) 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 […]"