Difference between Meet and Receive

What is the difference between Meet and Receive?

Meet as a verb is to come face to face with by accident; to encounter. while Receive as a verb is to get, to be given something while the other party is the active partner (opposite: to obtain).

Meet

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.) A meeting. the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol \and (mnemonic: half an M) An act of French kissing someone

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: suitable; right; proper

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. To come face to face with someone by arrangement. To converge and finally touch or intersect. To satisfy; to comply with. To French kiss someone

Example sentence: Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Receive

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to get, to be given something while the other party is the active partner (opposite: to obtain).to take possession ofTo act as a host for guests.To suffer from (an injury)To be in a position to take possition, or hit back the ball.# To be in a position to hit back a service.# To be in a position to catch a forward pass

Example sentence: We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We hope you now know whether to use Meet or Receive in your sentence.

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