Preschool vs. Reception — What's the Difference?

A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. It may be publicly or privately operated, and may be subsidized from public funds.

The action or process of receiving something sent, given, or inflicted

Of, relating to, intended for, or being the early years of childhood that precede the beginning of elementary school.

A formal social occasion held to welcome someone or to celebrate an event

A school for children who are not old enough to attend kindergarten; a nursery school.

The process of receiving broadcast signals

Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

The area in a hotel or organization where guests and visitors are greeted and dealt with

A nursery school.

The first class in an infant or primary school

(transitive) To provide nursery school education for.

An act of catching a pass

(intransitive) To undergo nursery school education.

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

An educational institution for children too young for elementary school

(Football) The act or an instance of catching a forward pass.

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance

A social function, especially one intended to provide a welcome or greeting

Mental approval or acceptance

Conversion of transmitted electromagnetic signals into perceptible forms, such as sound or light, by means of antennas and electronic equipment.

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

The act of receiving.

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

(linguistics) 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.

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

The state of being received.

The act or manner of receiving, especially of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

A retaking; a recovery.

The manner in which something is greeted;

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

The act of receiving

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;