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Sending

Send \Send\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent; p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. s["a]nda, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[=i]?, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t. 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. 4

  2. 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. 4

  5. God send your mission may bring back peace.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Wiktionary
sending

n. The act by which somebody or something is sent. vb. (present participle of send English)

WordNet
sending

n. the act of causing something to go (especially messages)

Usage examples of "sending".

We wondered for a long while why Kadra was so adamant about evacuating Tenua to the Abesse and sending her people straight into Volan hands.

Sending sensitive information by fax Policy: Before Sending Sensitive information by fax to a machine that is located in an area accessible to other personnel, the sender shall transmit a cover page.

The willow has flourished by sending deep roots into the earth under the acequia, a small water ditch.

Sometimes personal messages were forwarded in multiple copies, by regular interstellar couriers, the service sometimes duplicating and reduplicating the message without reading it, and sending copies on to different places, as often happened when the exact location of the addressee was unknown.

Typically readers simply circle a number that corresponds to an advertiser, and the publication forwards the cards to the company, which can follow up with a phone contact or by sending requested literature.

The moment the Dark sensed she had told you, they must have come rushing, sending the afanc to shock you into giving up what she had said.

Emory had been sent afield until now only one was left, and three days after Burleigh started there came a dispatch from department headquarters directing the sending of that one to Frayne at once.

A goodly number were aflight, but those that had gone between planet and star were suicides, sending only bare glimpses before heat and radiation killed their electronics.

A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.

Such was the way of the Mother, Aganippe thought, sending us forth from the womb, then gathering us back to her when we are done.

The cannon-fire was not followed by the alarum bells, so they knew Bluto was just sending a few balls arcing through the night to remind the Turks he was there.

Precept, and that is why I am sending you to Alba to bear word to Drustan mab Necthana.

Besides, she had been sending him love notes for a year through her chaperone, which he had not answered, partly out of shyness but also because he had wanted to stay as far away as possible from any member of the Alcazar family, even a niece.

And like as not he would have taken a few store pigs to the auction mart this week, sending the deadly contagion all over ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL405 Yorkshire and beyond.

He spotted three men in lederhosen lean over to blow on alpenhorns, sending their melancholy mooing out over the valley.