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单词 sending
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sendingn.

/ˈsɛndɪŋ/
Etymology: < send v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of send v.1
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society > communication > information > message > [noun]
errandc890
bodec1275
bodeworda1325
messagec1325
sendingc1400
credence1424
a word in a person's ear1566
credency1620
intermessage1691
telegram1852
memorandum1899
the world > movement > transference > sending > [noun]
emission1607
mission1609
sending1627
society > travel > transport > [noun] > causing to be conveyed or sending
remission1616
remitting1671
expedition1796
remittance1840
sending1882
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15293 He wolde neuere of sendyng blyn, Til he of me answere myȝt wyn.
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 178/2 By cause of his fals messages, sendynges and writynges.
1627 Abp. G. Abbot in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 461 Thus..to quicken my remembrance, I have laid down the Cause and the Proceedings of my sending into Kent, where I remain.
1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 153 The sending of the troops..to extirpate our friends in Poitou.
1882 E. R. Lankester in Linn. Soc. Jrnl. Zool. 16 460 For repeated sendings of a large number of Italian Scorpions..I am indebted to [etc.].
b. With adverbs, expressing the action of the verbal combinations: see send v.1 Also attributive.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun]
sendingc1480
take-down1880
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > sending away or dismissing
dimission1530
dismiss1589
recoilmenta1608
dismission1608
discharge1616
dismissmenta1626
cashiering1629
avoidance1633
sending1748
discard1787
dismissala1806
demission1811
turn-away1858
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 301 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 230 Be-twene þe ascencione of criste & þe spryte sendynge-done, all þe apostolis semblyt vare.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 134 At the sending ffor, of the pape.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hiv After we shall haue assembled our felowshyp togyther (by the sendynge aboute of oure bedyll).
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 173 There is little intermission..betweene the drawing in and sending forth of their breath. View more context for this quotation
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 278 The sending away our prisoners was our last transaction.
1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Oct. 209/1 Sending-in Day [Royal Academy].
1938 Times 17 Feb. 15/6 The great expense of the traditional sending-off parties for soldiers called to the colours.
1978 Rugby World Apr. 7/3 The laws..make no provision for a foul committed before a try—unless it be sending off.
1982 ‘W. Haggard’ Mischief-makers vi. 65 The referee, white, had sent off a black... There was a code which governed sendings-off, particularly in amateur [football] matches.
2. The transmission of a telegraphic or telephonic message. Also attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > transmission
sendingc1865
transmission1907
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 271/2 One..ribbon may be carried..over any number of sending machines.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 115 The sending of a clerk after a time loses clearness and legibility.
1906 A. E. Kennelly Wireless Telegr. 110 A wireless-telegraph sending station.
3. Something sent.
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society > travel > transport > [noun] > causing to be conveyed or sending > thing sent
sending1600
remittance1880
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 20 Too curst is more then curst, I shall lessen Gods sending that way. View more context for this quotation
1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 138 You ask me how I like your last sendings?
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 117 For I send east and I send west,..And syne my Sendings return to me. They come wi' news [etc.].
4. [Old Norse, in same sense.] An unpleasant or evil thing supposed to be sent by a wizard, or through a wizard at the request of another party, as a punishment or act of revenge.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > malignant sorcery > thing sent by
sending1864
1864 Powell & Magnusson Icel. Legends 238 If he did not return to them by Christmas-day next, they would despatch a Sending to him who should kill him.
1888 R. Kipling In Black & White 68 A Sending..is a Thing sent by a wizard.
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 218 A phenomenon analogous to that of the werwolf is that of the ‘sending’—a thing or animal, sometimes animated or even created by the sorcerer, or some part of the sorcerer himself (his soul, etc.) and sent out by him to annoy or injure people.
1980 G. Household Sending v. 68 What your Norse shamans and the sagas called a ‘sending’..a sort of portable ghost.

Compounds

(In sense 2.)
sending-hook n.
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1904 F. Lynde Grafters ix. 128 The night operator..not only looked first to his sending hook, but was thoughtful enough to run over the accumulation of messages waiting to be transmitted.
sending-wire n.
ΚΠ
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 644/1 The system of ‘tuning’ makes it impossible for a message to be intercepted and retained by a receiver that is not synchronised or attuned to the sending-wire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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