reception
/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone; The act of receiving; The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals; A reaction
- plural
- receptions
Meanings
- 1
A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone
I didn't want to go to the reception.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
Make another appointment at reception.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
The act of receiving
- 3
The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals
- 4
A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc
- 5
The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received
- 6
The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal educationrare
- 7
The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culturerare
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The act of catching a passrare
- 9
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, interpretationrare