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SENDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of causing something to go (especially messages)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sending" is a kind of...):
causation; causing (the act of causing something to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sending"):
transmission; transmittal; transmitting (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)
Derivation:
send (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)
send (transfer)
send (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)
send (cause to go somewhere)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb send
Context examples:
Issue associated with the device sending or receiving signals or data.
(Communication or Transmission Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)
It will only be sending Betty by the coach, and I hope I can afford THAT.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A specific mutation (change) in the BRAF gene, which makes a protein that is involved in sending signals in cells and in cell growth.
(BRAF (V600E) mutation, NCI Dictionary)
The joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information, was as sincere as her brother's in sending it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A gene that makes a protein called B-RAF, which is involved in sending signals in cells and in cell growth.
(BRAF gene, NCI Dictionary)
I hope, said Van Helsing, that when you are sending the child home you will caution its parents to keep strict watch over it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Later on he pawned his watch, and still later his wheel, reducing the amount available for food by putting stamps on all his manuscripts and sending them out.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Jo unfolded it, and looked much abashed, for it was one of her own contributions to a paper that paid for poetry, which accounted for her sending it an occasional attempt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But he must have some strong reason for sending Miss Cushing this packet.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I admit that the paper was exuberant in the matter, out of compliment to its own enterprise in sending a correspondent, but the other great dailies were hardly less full in their account.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
