{
  "id": "receive.communication",
  "term": "receive",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "receive",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to get something that comes to a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "come.arrive",
      "get.acquisition",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "when something moves through space to a location and is acquired by that location",
    "novel_properties": [
      "arrival at a destination",
      "acquisition via motion",
      "spatial endpoint of transfer"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory received radar echoes from Venus in 1961, confirming its rotation rate.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The BBC World Service broadcast reached listeners in 112 countries via shortwave in 1985.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe received a course correction command from NASA's Deep Space Network on August 29, 2017.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "average.statistical",
    "call.communication",
    "client.business",
    "college.education",
    "communications.social",
    "deal.transaction",
    "download.digital",
    "exchange.trade",
    "give.transfer",
    "heard.auditory",
    "income.financial",
    "internet.digital",
    "media.communication",
    "phone.electrical",
    "provide.supply",
    "reply.communication",
    "students.group",
    "subscribe.service",
    "welcome.greeting"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "receive",
    "received",
    "receives",
    "receiving"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added space.extent as required for 'place' in definition; revised interaction to reflect combined action; kept definition due to factual correction in components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication"
}