Receive vs. Send — What's the Difference?

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

To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination

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

To dispatch, as by a communications medium

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

To direct to go on a mission

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

To require or enable to go

To hear or see (information, for example)

To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer

To perceive or acquire mentally

To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue

To regard with approval or disapproval

To utter or otherwise emit (sound)

To listen to and acknowledge formally and authoritatively

To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive

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

To cause to take place or occur

To experience or be subjected to; meet with

To put or drive into a given state or condition

To have inflicted or imposed on oneself

(Slang) To transport with delight; carry away

To bear the weight or force of; support

To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message

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

To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail

To be exposed to or withstand

To transmit a message or messages

To take in, hold, or contain

Variant of scend.

To admit or accept

To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

To greet, welcome, or be visited by

To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).

To acquire or get something; be a recipient.

(transitive) To bring to a certain condition.

To admit or welcome guests or visitors

To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.

To partake of the Eucharist.

(transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

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

To pitch.

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

To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

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

To care.

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

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.

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

An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.

To incur (an injury).

(nautical) scend

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

(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.

(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.

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

(climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

To be in a position to hit back a service.

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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

To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; - sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

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 dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

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 pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

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

The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

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.

Cause to go somewhere;

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

To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place;

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.

Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

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

Transport commercially

To bat back (the ball) when served.

Assign to a station

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

Transfer;

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

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;

Get something; come into possession of;

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;

Receive a specified treatment (abstract);

Recieve (perceptual input);

Of mental or physical states or experiences;

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

Accept as true or valid;

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

Convert into sounds or pictures;

Experience as a reaction;

Have or give a reception;

Receive as a retribution or punishment;

Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

Regard favorably or with disapproval;