Reception vs. Party — What's the Difference?

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

A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment.

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

A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement

The process of receiving broadcast signals

A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity

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

A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission

The first class in an infant or primary school

An established political group organized to promote and support its principles and candidates for public office.

An act of catching a pass

A person or group involved in an enterprise; a participant or accessory

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

(Law) A person or entity that participates in a transaction, makes a contract, or is involved in a lawsuit as a litigant.

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

A subscriber to a telephone party line.

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance

A person using a telephone.

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

A person

Mental approval or acceptance

Of, relating to, or participating in an established political organization

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

Suitable for use at a social gathering

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

Characteristic of a pleasurable social gathering

The act of receiving.

To celebrate or carouse at a party or similar gathering

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

(legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

A person.

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

A person; an individual.

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

With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

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

A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

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

Active player characters organized into a single group.

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

(video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.

(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.

(politics) A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

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.

(military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

The state of being received.

A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.

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.

A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.

A retaking; a recovery.

A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.

The manner in which something is greeted;

A small group of birds or mammals.

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

(obsolete) A part or division.

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

(intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

The act of receiving

To take recreational drugs.

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

(intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.

To form a party (with).

Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.

Divided; in part.

(heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

A part or portion.

A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.

A part of a larger body of company; a detachment;

A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.

One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.

The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

Cause; side; interest.

A person; as, he is a queer party.

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

Partial; favoring one party; partisan.

Partly.

An organization to gain political power;

An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment;

A band of people associated temporarily in some activity;

A group of people gathered together for pleasure;

A person involved in legal proceedings;

Have or participate in a party;