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Noun sending has 1 sense
- sending - the act of causing something to go (especially messages)
--1 is a kind of causing, causation
--1 has particulars: transmission, transmittal, transmitting
Verb send has 8 senses
- send, direct - cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- send, send out - to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"
--2 is one way to transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- mail, post, send - cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
--3 is one way to transfer
Sample sentences:
They send the parcel to their parents
They send them the parcel
- transport, send, ship - transport commercially
--4 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
They send the parcel to their parents
They send them the parcel
- station, post, base, send, place - assign to a station
--5 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- send, get off, send off - transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
--6 is one way to transfer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge - cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
--7 is one way to transfer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit - broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
--8 is one way to publicize, publicise, air, bare
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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