Give vs. Receive — What's the Difference?

Freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone)

To take or acquire (something given or offered); get or be given

Cause or allow (someone or something) to have or experience (something); provide with

To be the person who gets (something sent or transmitted)

Carry out or perform (a specified action)

(Sports) To catch or get possession of (a pass or a kicked ball, for example).

Yield as a product or result

To have (a title, for example) bestowed on oneself.

Concede (something) as valid or deserved in respect of (someone)

To hear or see (information, for example)

State or put forward (information or argument)

To perceive or acquire mentally

Alter in shape under pressure rather than resist or break

To regard with approval or disapproval

Capacity to bend or alter in shape under pressure

To listen to and acknowledge formally and authoritatively

To make a present of

To take in and convert (radio waves, for example) into an electrical signal or into an audio or visual output.

To place in the hands of; pass

To experience or be subjected to; meet with

To deliver in exchange or recompense; pay

To have inflicted or imposed on oneself

To let go for a price; sell

To bear the weight or force of; support

To administer

To take or intercept the impact of (a blow, for example).

To convey by a physical action

To be exposed to or withstand

To inflict as punishment

To take in, hold, or contain

To bestow, especially officially; confer

To admit or accept

To accord or tender to another

To greet, welcome, or be visited by

To put temporarily at the disposal of

To acquire or get something; be a recipient.

To entrust to another, usually for a specified reason

To admit or welcome guests or visitors

To communicate, convey, or offer for conveyance

To partake of the Eucharist.

To endure the loss of; sacrifice

To convert incoming electromagnetic signals into sound, light, or electrical signals.

To devote or apply completely

(Sports) To receive a pass or a kicked ball, for example.

To furnish or contribute

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

To offer in good faith; pledge

(law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

To allot as a portion or share.

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

To bestow (a name, for example).

To incur (an injury).

To attribute (blame, for example) to someone; assign.

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

To award as due

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

To emit or utter

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

To submit for consideration, acceptance, or use

To be in a position to hit back a service.

To proffer to another

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

To consent to engage (oneself) in sexual intercourse with another person.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

To perform for an audience

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

To present to view

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.

To offer as entertainment

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.

To propose as a toast.

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

To be a source of; afford

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.

To cause to catch or be subject to (a disease or bodily condition)

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

To guide or direct, as by persuasion or behavior. Used with an infinitive phrase

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.

To yield or produce

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

To bring forth or bear

To bat back (the ball) when served.

To produce as a result of calculation

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

To manifest or show

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

To carry out (a physical movement)

Get something; come into possession of;

To permit one to have or take

Receive a specified treatment (abstract);

To take an interest to the extent of

Recieve (perceptual input);

To make gifts or donations

Of mental or physical states or experiences;

To yield to physical force

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

To collapse from force or pressure

Accept as true or valid;

To yield to change

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

To afford access or a view; open

Convert into sounds or pictures;

(Slang) To be in progress; happen

Experience as a reaction;

Capacity or inclination to yield under pressure.

Have or give a reception;

The quality or condition of resilience; springiness

Receive as a retribution or punishment;

(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

Regard favorably or with disapproval;

To make a present or gift of.

To pledge.

To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.

To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).

To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).

To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.

(transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.

(ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

(intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.

(intransitive) To lead (onto or into).

To provide a view of.

To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.

To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.

To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.

(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

(obsolete) To become soft or moist.

(obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.

(obsolete) To have a misgiving.

(slang) To be going on, to be occurring; what gives?

The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.

To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.

To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.

To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; - used principally in the passive form given.

To allow or admit by way of supposition.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.

To pledge; as, to give one's word.

To cause; to make; - with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.

To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.

To give a gift or gifts.

To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

To become soft or moist.

To move; to recede.

To shed tears; to weep.

To have a misgiving.

To open; to lead.

The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

Cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense;

Be the cause or source of;

Transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody;

Convey or reveal information;

Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow;

Organize or be responsible for;

Convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture;

Give as a present; make a gift of;

Bring about;

Dedicate;

Give or supply;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Bring about;

Leave with; give temporarily;

Emit or utter;

Endure the loss of;

Place into the hands or custody of;

Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;

Give (as medicine);

Give or convey physically;

Bestow;

Bestow, especially officially;

Move in order to make room for someone for something;

Give food to;

Contribute to some cause;

Break down, literally or metaphorically;

Estimate the duration or outcome of something;

Execute and deliver;

Deliver in exchange or recompense;

Afford access to;

Present to view;

Perform for an audience;

Be flexible under stress of physical force;

Propose;

Legal use: accord by verdict;

Manifest or show;

Offer in good faith;

Submit for consideration, judgment, or use;

Guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion;

Allow to have or take;

Inflict as a punishment;

Occur;

Consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man;

Proffer (a body part);