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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



... after any final order or judgment is issued in the case, the clerk of the court shall notify the Register of it, sending with the notification a copy of the order or judgment together with the written opinion, if any, ...
— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
... summoned the father to appear before them. This meant loss of time and the cost of the journey. Should the parent choose to continue defiant he was fined 5 to 10 yen for disobedience to authority and up to 30 yen for not sending his ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
... get stolen by the train-sorters. Even sending half notes is not always a security, if the remitter does not take the precaution of waiting to hear of the safe arrival of the first half. The dishonest sorter having secured the first half, and having observed the post-mark and hand-writing, will be on the ...
— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin
... manifestations of her laws, and the reckoning which their violation demands, you thought science must satisfy. Science doesn't satisfy. With ignorance and superstition, with life's cruelties and injustice, with human helplessness, you could quarrel well, but beyond the sending out of checks to serve as a soothing-syrup to your encumbrance of a conscience what did you ever do to give a lift to anything? Nothing! And the pity is ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher
... they had done to make this first home fit for her, family and friends were unanimous in hailing her removal to another and more distant one—out of the buzz of the gossip of her native neighbourhood—as the best thing that could have happened. But when it came to the point of sending her forth to battle with her fate alone for the rest of her life, the wrench was dreadful. She was the bravest of them all under the ordeal. The shattered father, whose right hand she had been for so many ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge


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