Receive vs. Dispatch

Receiveverb

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

‘She received many presents for her birthday.’;

Dispatchverb

To send a shipment with promptness.

Receiveverb

To take possession of.

Dispatchverb

To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.

Receiveverb

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.’;

Dispatchverb

To send a journalist to a place in order to report.

Receiveverb

To incur (an injury).

‘I received a bloody nose from the collision.’;

Dispatchverb

To hurry.

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchverb

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

Receiveverb

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

Dispatchverb

To rid; to free.

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchverb

(obsolete) To deprive.

Receiveverb

To be in a position to hit back a service.

Dispatchverb

To destroy quickly and efficiently.

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchverb

(computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).

Receiveverb

To accept into the mind; to understand.

Dispatchnoun

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.

Receivenoun

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

Dispatchnoun

The act of doing something quickly.

‘We must act with dispatch in this matter.’;

Receiveverb

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.

‘Receyven all in gree that God us sent.’;

Dispatchnoun

A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.

Receiveverb

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.

‘Our hearts receive your warnings.’; ‘The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.’;

Dispatchnoun

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.

Receiveverb

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

‘Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots.’;

Dispatchnoun

(obsolete) A dismissal.

Receiveverb

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.

‘They kindled a fire, and received us every one.’;

Dispatchverb

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

‘Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch weThe business we have talked of.’; ‘[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.’;

Receiveverb

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

‘The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.’;

Dispatchverb

To rid; to free.

‘I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.’;

Receiveverb

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.

‘Against his will he can receive no harm.’;

Dispatchverb

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

‘Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets.’;

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchverb

To send off or away; - particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

‘Even with the speediest expeditionI will dispatch him to the emperor's cou .’;

Receiveverb

To bat back (the ball) when served.

‘Who, if we knewWhat we receive, would either not acceptLife offered, or soon beg to lay it down.’;

Dispatchverb

To send out of the world; to put to death.

‘The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords.’;

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchverb

To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

‘They have dispatched with Pompey.’;

Receiveverb

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

Dispatchnoun

The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

Receiveverb

get something; come into possession of;

‘receive payment’; ‘receive a gift’; ‘receive letters from the front’;

Dispatchnoun

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

‘To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.’;

Receiveverb

receive a specified treatment (abstract);

‘These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation’; ‘His movie received a good review’; ‘I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions’;

Dispatchnoun

The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

‘Serious business, craving quick dispatch.’; ‘To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.’;

Receiveverb

recieve (perceptual input);

‘pick up a signal’;

Dispatchnoun

A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; - often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

Receiveverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

‘get an idea’; ‘experience vertigo’; ‘get nauseous’; ‘undergo a strange sensation’; ‘The chemical undergoes a sudden change’; ‘The fluid undergoes shear’; ‘receive injuries’; ‘have a feeling’;

Dispatchnoun

A message transmitted by telegraph.

Receiveverb

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

‘The community warmly received the refugees’;

Dispatchnoun

an official report (usually sent in haste)

Receiveverb

accept as true or valid;

‘He received Christ’;

Dispatchnoun

the act of sending off something

Receiveverb

bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

Dispatchnoun

the property of being prompt and efficient;

‘it was done with dispatch’;

Receiveverb

convert into sounds or pictures;

‘receive the incoming radio signals’;

Dispatchnoun

killing a person or animal

Receiveverb

experience as a reaction;

‘My proposal met with much opposition’;

Dispatchverb

send away towards a designated goal

Receiveverb

have or give a reception;

‘The lady is receiving Sunday morning’;

Dispatchverb

complete or carry out;

‘discharge one's duties’;

Receiveverb

receive as a retribution or punishment;

‘He got 5 years in prison’;

Dispatchverb

kill intentionally and with premeditation;

‘The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered’;

Receiveverb

partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

Dispatchverb

dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;

‘He dispatched the task he was assigned’;

Receiveverb

regard favorably or with disapproval;

‘Her new collection of poems was not well received’;

Dispatchverb

kill without delay;

‘the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators’;

Dispatchverb

send off to a destination or for a purpose

‘the government dispatched 150 police to restore order’; ‘he dispatched messages back to base’;

Dispatchverb

deal with (a task or opponent) quickly and efficiently

‘the Welsh team were dispatched comfortably by the opposition’;

Dispatchverb

kill

‘he dispatched the animal with one blow’;

Dispatchnoun

the sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose

‘a resolution authorizing the dispatch of a peacekeeping force’;

Dispatchnoun

promptness and efficiency

‘the situation might change, so he should proceed with dispatch’;

Dispatchnoun

an official report on state or military affairs

‘in his battle dispatch he described the gunner's bravery’;

Dispatchnoun

a report sent in from abroad by a journalist

‘he conducted meetings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches’;

Dispatchnoun

the killing of someone or something

‘the executioner's merciful dispatch of his victims’;