Receptionist vs. Reception: What's the Difference?

An office worker employed chiefly to receive visitors and answer the telephone.

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

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

(theology) A proponent of receptionism.

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance

A secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors

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

Mental approval or acceptance

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

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

The act of receiving.

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

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

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

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

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

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

(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.

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.

The state of being received.

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.

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

A retaking; a recovery.

The manner in which something is greeted;

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

The act of receiving

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