SENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sender mean? 

• SENDER (noun)
  The noun SENDER has 2 senses:

1. someone who transmits a message

2. set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

  Familiarity information: SENDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who transmits a message

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sender; transmitter

Context example:

return to sender

Hypernyms ("sender" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sender"):

spammer (someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk))

Derivation:

send (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

send (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sender; transmitter

Hypernyms ("sender" is a kind of...):

set (any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals)

Meronyms (parts of "sender"):

aerial; antenna; transmitting aerial (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sender"):

jammer (a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming)

radio transmitter (transmitter that is the part of a radio system that transmits signals)

satellite transmitter (a transmitter on a communications satellite)

television transmitter (transmitter that is part of a television system)

Derivation:

send (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

 Context examples 

It means nothing to the message, but it might mean a good deal to us if we had no other means of discovering the sender.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which it would take the senders to travel the distance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have you informed the sender?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We may take it that the sender of the packet is the man whom we want.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we had expected, the telegram was soon followed by its sender, and the card of Mr. Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is no indication as to the sender, and the matter is the more mysterious as Miss Cushing, who is a maiden lady of fifty, has led a most retired life, and has so few acquaintances or correspondents that it is a rare event for her to receive anything through the post.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have, of course, wired to the Belfast post-office, but a large number of parcels were handed in upon that day, and they have no means of identifying this particular one, or of remembering the sender.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think it was on the third day that a telegram signed Henry C. Gatz arrived from a town in Minnesota. It said only that the sender was leaving immediately and to postpone the funeral until he came.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)