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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



... at first sight to favour this belief; for they run up the midrib in a great bundle, sending off small bundles almost at right angles on each side. These bifurcate occasionally as they extend towards the margin, and close to the margin small branches from adjoining vessels unite and enter the marginal spikes. ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin
... much worse. Bulletins appeared in the newspapers, though no one at Matching knew from whence they came. Sir Omicron Pie, who, having retired from general practice, was enabled to devote his time to the "dear Duke," protested that he had no hand in sending them out. He declared to Lady Glencora every morning that it was only a question of time. "The vital spark is on the spring," said Sir Omicron, waving a gesture heavenward with his hand. For three days Mr. Palliser was at Matching, and ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... was laid up with mumps or something of that sort, and he was very favorably reported on as being handy in the garden, able to milk a cow, and so on. By the way, Mrs. Greg, I have taken the liberty of sending down a cow in milk. I expect she is in your meadow now. I have seven or eight of them, and if you will send her back when her milk fails I will ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... may be sending them to their death. Here, I don't like this, Dean. I am sure father would rather that we lost the rifle. Here, let's call them ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn
... fell to work tearing up grass and weeds. And that is how I came to ride over thirty miles on three grass-stuffed tires, which, thanks to the heat, towards the end of the journey began sending forth little jets of green liquid much to the astonishment of all those who ...
— My Home In The Field of Honor • Frances Wilson Huard


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