SENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sending mean? 

• SENDING (noun)
  The noun SENDING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SENDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENDING (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)

 Context examples 

Uranus in Taurus will also be sending good wishes to good-fortune Jupiter, an exceedingly rare event, and that will happen on December 15.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This was her history; and particularly interesting it was to Mr. Woodhouse, who commended her very much for thinking of sending for Perry, and only regretted that she had not done it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The chemicals are responsible for sending messages between brain cells that have been linked to schizophrenia.

(Key to Treating Schizophrenia May Be Found in Broccoli, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“And I said” added Mr. Wickfield gravely, “abroad. I was the means of sending him abroad. It's my responsibility.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She found herself more successful in sending away than in retaining a companion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Many young stars in the cluster are sending massive outflows of material - the same material that forms the star - into space.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

I have done very little besides sending away some of the large looking-glasses from my dressing-room, which was your father's.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Damaged nerves may stop sending messages, or may send messages slowly or at the wrong times.

(Diabetic Nerve Problems, NIH)

A cell on the surface of the body or lining a body cavity that responds to physical and chemical stimuli by sending information to the central nervous system.

(Epithelial Receptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The bow plunged down, just missing me and sending a swash of water clear over my head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)