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Sending   /sˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Sending

noun
1.
The act of causing something to go (especially messages).


Send

verb
(past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)
1.
Cause to go somewhere.  Synonym: direct.  "She sent her children to camp" , "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
2.
To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place.  Synonym: send out.
3.
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.  Synonyms: mail, post.  "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
4.
Transport commercially.  Synonyms: ship, transport.
5.
Assign to a station.  Synonyms: place, post, station.
6.
Transfer.  Synonyms: get off, send off.
7.
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.  Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize.  "He was committed to prison"
8.
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.  Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit.



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"Sending" Quotes from Famous Books



... carriage by the month—and— and I can't shop for myself, you don't know what a difference that makes; and—oh, everything is different! Why, I've just had my portrait painted. But Father isn't a poor man." "He is poor, measured by New York standards. And he is sending you ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... with some doubt that Elizabeth Eliza proposed sending a telegram to her father. Mrs. Peterkin, however, was pleased with the idea. Solomon John was out, and the little boys were at school, and she herself would touch the knob, while Elizabeth ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
... such careful inquiries before sending me here; and what a dangerous soil for a precocious boy just entering the years of youth was this manufacturing town and an institution so badly managed as the Kottbus School! I had come hither full of beautiful ideals and animated ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Pighius—concerning the life and travels of his princely charge, Charles Frederick, Duke of Cleves, who on his grand tour died in Rome. Pighius discusses at considerable length,[46] in describing the hesitancy of the Duke's guardians about sending him on a tour, the advantages and disadvantages of travel. The expense of it and the diseases you catch, were great deterrents; yet the widening of the mind which judicious travelling insures, so greatly outweighed ...
— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard
... fairly infer, that, whilst he was aiding the Prince in the war against Owyn Glyndowr, he had not been silent or idle in the dissemination of these principles. In the synod held in St. Paul's, his offence of sending emissaries and preachers is said to have been especially committed (beside the dioceses of London and Rochester) in the diocese of Hereford; and, as we have seen, in 1404 he was especially charged with the safeguard of the town ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler


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