SENDING
sending
(noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
sending
present participle of send
Noun
sending (plural sendings)
The act by which somebody or something is sent.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
SEND
Send, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent (; p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.] Etym:
[AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten,
Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp
a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS.
si, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr.
s. Cf. Sense.]
1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct
to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he
sent me. John viii. 42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message
requires. Swift.
2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the
going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. Ps. xliii. 3.
3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball,
an arrow, or the like.
4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; --
sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!"
Shak.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. Deut.
xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back peace. Sir W. Scott.
Send, v. i.
1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an
errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head 2
Kings vi. 32.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to
endanger her masts. Totten. To send for, to request or require by
message to come or be brought.
Send, n. (Naut.)
Definition: The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
[Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea".
Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition