Definition of Sending

1. Noun. The act of causing something to go (especially messages).

Generic synonyms: Causation, Causing
Specialized synonyms: Transmission, Transmittal, Transmitting
Derivative terms: Send, Send, Send, Send

Definition of Sending

1. Verb. (present participle of send) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sending

1. send [v] - See also: send

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sending

send somebody packing
send to Coventry
send to the glue factory
send up
send word
sendable
sendal
sendaline
sendals
sended
sendee
sender
senders
sendest
sendeth
sending (current term)
sending-off
sending away
sending away for
sending off
sending offs
sending to Coventry
sending up
sendings
sendoff
sendoffs
sends
sends away
sends away for
sends off

Literary usage of Sending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1838)
"THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF sending FORTH HIS SECOND PART OF THE PILGRIM. CiO now, my little Book, to every place, Where my First Pilgrim has but shown his face: ..."

2. A Manual of Naval Prize Law by Godfrey Lushington (1866)
"sending TO POET OP ADJUDICATION. 69. After Detention, the Commander should as soon as possible send the Vessel and Cargo in for Adjudication. ..."

3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... namely, the sending; out of the city all who had arrived at ten years of age, in order to expedite the business of education by a generation, ..."

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