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Receipt vs. Reception

Receipt and Reception Definitions

Receipt

The act of receiving
We are in receipt of your letter.

Reception

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

Receipt

The fact of being or having been received
They denied receipt of the shipment.

Reception

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

Receipt

Often receipts A quantity or amount received
Cash receipts.

Reception

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance
A friendly reception.
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Receipt

A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.

Reception

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

Receipt

A recipe.

Reception

Mental approval or acceptance
The reception of a new theory.

Receipt

To mark (a bill) as having been paid.

Reception

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

To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).

Reception

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

Receipt

To give a receipt.

Reception

The act of receiving.

Receipt

The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
A balance payable on receipt of the goods.

Reception

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
We have poor TV reception in the valley.
The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
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Receipt

(obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.

Reception

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

Receipt

(in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.
This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!

Reception

A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.

Receipt

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

Reception

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

Receipt

(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.

Reception

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

Receipt

(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.

Reception

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

Receipt

(archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century) A recipe, instructions, prescription.

Reception

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

Receipt

(obsolete) A receptacle.

Reception

(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.

Receipt

(obsolete) A revenue office.

Reception

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.

Receipt

(obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.

Reception

The state of being received.

Receipt

(obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.

Reception

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.
What reception a poem may find.

Receipt

(obsolete) A recess; a retired place.

Reception

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries have fallen into as extravagant opinions as even common reception countenanced.

Receipt

To give or write a receipt (for something).
To receipt delivered goods

Reception

A retaking; a recovery.

Receipt

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.
To receipt a bill

Reception

The manner in which something is greeted;
She did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors

Receipt

The act of receiving; reception.

Reception

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Receipt

Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Thy kind receipt of me.

Reception

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

Receipt

Capability of receiving; capacity.
It has become a place of great receipt.

Reception

The act of receiving

Receipt

Place of receiving.
He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.

Reception

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;
The tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line

Receipt

Hence, a recess; a retired place.

Receipt

A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
She had a receipt to make white hair black.

Receipt

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

Receipt

That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; - usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

Receipt

To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

Receipt

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

Receipt

To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Receipt

The act of receiving

Receipt

An acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made

Receipt

Report the receipt of;
The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper

Receipt

Mark or stamp as paid

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