reception vs social occasion

reception

noun
  • The act of receiving. 

  • A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone. 

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

  • The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture. 

  • The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals. 

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

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

  • The act of catching a pass. 

  • 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. 

social occasion

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