reception.
The act of receiving.
Meaning & usage
The act of receiving.
The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.
The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
The act of catching a pass.
Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English recepcion, reception, from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiōn- (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.
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