reception
noun/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
Etymology 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.
9 senses
- 1The act of receiving.
- 2The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
- 3A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
- 4A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a…
- 5The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
- 6The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and…
- 7The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal…
- 8The act of catching a pass.
- 9Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text…
The act of receiving.
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics 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.
- "There was warmth, but there was also trepidation," said the head of one gay group, who attended the reception.2009 June 29, Chris Good, “Obama's Warm LGBT Reception”, in The Atlantic:
A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
- The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
- At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89:
2 more examples
- The crusty portier and the crusty clerks gave us the surly reception which their kind deal out in prosperous times, but by mollifying them with an extra display of obsequiousness and servility we finally got them to show us to the room which our boy had engaged for us.1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
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.
Law The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
- Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.1942 October, Ernst Levy, “Reflections on the First "Reception" of Roman Law in Germanic States”, in The American Historical Review, →JSTOR, page 20:
American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The act of catching a pass.
- Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie.2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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.
- Synonyms
- front desk
- Derived terms
27 terms
autoreception, baroreception, chemoreception, critical reception, electroreception, magnetoreception, mechanoreception, nonreception, osmoreception, phonoreception, photoception, photoreception, proprioception, receptional, reception center, reception centre, reception chair, reception desk, receptionism, receptionist, receptionless, reception room, reception shed, reception wiki, telereception, thermoreception, wedding reception- Related terms
- receptacle, receptive, receptible, receptor, receive