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Broadcasting: radio
aerial
am
antenna
anti-jamming
anti-radar
autotune
bandwidth
beacon
CB
LW
medium wave
multi-wavelength
multichannel
MW
RDS
short wave
shout-out
tranny
transponder
tuner

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Broadcasting: television

receptionnoun (SCHOOL)

[ U ]UK
the first year of infant school: 学前班
a reception class/teacher学前班／学前班老师

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Schools in general
admission
assembly
bailey
blackboard
blackboard jungle
break something up
bursar
classroom
infant
interschool
intramural
ivory tower
jolly hockey sticksidiom
kindergarten
language laboratory
school run
schoolchild
schoolgirl
seat of learningidiom
sixth form

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Classes & courses

reception | American Dictionary

reception
noun
us/rɪˈsep·ʃən/

receptionnoun (WELCOME)

[ C ]
the way in which people react to something or someone:
The proposed jail has received a cool/lukewarm reception from local residents.
American musicians found a warm reception in Europe in the 1960s.
[ C ]
A reception is also a formal party:
a cocktail/wedding reception

receptionnoun (RADIO/TELEVISION)

[ U ]
the degree to which radio or television sounds and pictures are clear:
We get poor reception around here.

reception | Business English

reception
noun
uk /rɪˈsepʃən/us
[ U ] WORKPLACE
a place inside a hotel or office building where visitors go when they first arrive:
Let's meet in reception.
Posters will be on display in the reception area.
Collect your welcome packs from the reception desk.
We need more staff working on reception.
[ C ]
a formal party to welcome someone or to celebrate something:
The mayor offered to host a reception for the delegates.
The product will be launched at a champagne reception.
[ C ]
the way in which people react to a new idea, product, or person:
a warm/cool reception
The firm's expansion in Africa is expected to meet with a mixed reception.
The latest marketing plan got a frosty reception from the Board.
[ U ] COMMUNICATIONS
the quality of sound and pictures on a radio, television, mobile phone, etc. when it is used in a particular place:
I won't be able to call you, as reception is really bad in rural areas.

Examples of reception

reception
She just yelled through the open door that separated the reception area from his office.
The questions raised by medieval music reception reach to musicological fields outside medieval studies, but especially ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
The frame is related to the presentation but also to the reception of theatre.
Its grandiose accompaniment, unison melody, strong martial rhythms and the thrust of its dramatic function were sufficient to guarantee such a reception.
Each reed pod2 contains a collection of electronics for either the gathering of weather information or the reception and dispersion of sound.
These studies have shown that medieval music is filtered through its various receptions, and in fact exists in these receptions.
Despite the mixed critical reception given the work as a whole, most observers understood how poorly the score had been played.
If this is the case, their differential novelty cannot fully account for the quite different reception of the two major parts of the monograph.
The reception of the pieces, however, does seem to split somewhat down cultural lines.
The initial positive reception of this 'zero contribution' inference was followed by a large critical literature.
The recent history of music scholarship provides a large part of the context for the reception of the volumes under consideration here.
Emphasis on sensory reception also characterizes post-political theatre, which confirms its rejection of consistency and of any wellargued discourse about the state of the world.
The argument follows from a fundamental premise: to understand the development and reception of forms of subjectivity requires an awareness of their highly contested nature.
This distinguishes between centre and periphery with the curvilinear volume featuring as centre and the outer exhibition spaces and ticket reception forming a peripheral zone.
It is not so much the authentic past of items that is of interest to purists as it is the reception in a present.
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Collocations withreception

reception

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critical reception
Their personal attitude towards politics did not necessarily influence the criticalreception of their works.
enthusiastic reception
It is not an enthusiasticreception.
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