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单词 to send up
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to send up
to send up
1. transitive. Of things: To emit, give off, shoot out (something that rises or travels upwards).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > something that rises
to send up1584
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 76 The countrey is exceeding hote and parching, being altogether vnfit to sende vp any vapours.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 742 The Hills..Vapour, and Exhalation dusk and moist, Sent up amain. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶5 It is a Flame that sends up no Smoak.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vii. xi. 161 [It] Past like a spark sent up out of a burning oven.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 104 If a bean is planted..it will immediately begin to send up a stem.
2. To cause (a person) to go or (a thing) to be taken ‘upstairs’ (from the kitchen, entrance hall, etc.); esp. to serve up (a meal), to send in (one's name or card as a visitor).
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society > trade and finance > charges > [verb (transitive)] > demand payment > send bill or account
render1712
to send up1836
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > send in name or card
to send in1748
to leave one's (also a) card1749
spit1782
to send up1884
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xi. 170 The master of the inn..sent up the bill by the waiter.
1884 Graphic 29 Nov. 578/3 Gerald..sent up his name to Lord Whitby.
absolute.1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. iv. 106 Poor Tomlins has sent up three times to say the fish will be spoiled.
3. To send (a bill) from the Commons to the Lords. Also gen.
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society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > send bill to Lords
to send up1832
1832 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 6 Apr. (1874) II. 282 That could not be now in the Bill, as it was sent up from the Commons.
1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 67 § 17 If..any Public Bill..is sent up to the Senate of Southern Ireland..at least one month before the end of the session.
4. Public Schools. To send (a boy) to the headmaster (a) for reward, (b) for punishment.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [verb (transitive)] > reward
to send up1821
society > education > educational administration > school administration > [verb (transitive)] > punishment
to send up1857
impose1887
1821 Salt-Bearer (Eton Coll.) 129 He more than once had the honour of being ‘sent up for good’, i.e. having his verses read over by the head master as particularly worthy of commendation.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxv. 338 I remember poor Shelley at school being sent up for good for a copy of verses.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 168 ‘What if we're late?’ said Tom. ‘No tea, and sent up to the Doctor,’ answered East.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vii. 360 He sent me up to be flogged for it.
1881 C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 322 Sent up, Eton. An honour due usually to distinction in verses.
1881 C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 323 The Head Master exercised the power of sending up ‘for play’, which was counted as three times ‘sent up for good’. Every third occasion of being sent up for good the boy could claim a book from the Head.
5. To put in prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
1852 ‘N. Buntline’ Myst. & Miseries N.Y. (new ed.) iii. 7 (Farmer) They'd blow on me for some of my work, and I'd be sent up.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 10/1 Only two prisoners, men, occupied the prison-van... Burns was being ‘sent up’ for wife-beating, and Tannahill for theft.
6. To pass (one's plate, cup, etc.) up the table for another helping.
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1856 Punch 12 July 18/2 A Vulgar Error.—That it is not allowed at a City dinner to send up twice for Turtle Soup!
7. Logging. (See quot.)
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1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xi. 82 He was engaged in ‘sending up’: that is he was one of the two men who stand at either side of the skids to help the ascending log keep straight and true to its bed on the pile.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 46 Send-up man, that member of a loading crew who guides the logs up the skids. Send up, to, in loading, to raise logs up skids with cant hooks, or by steam or horse power.
8. To mock, make fun of (a person or thing); to parody.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule or mock by imitation
mocka1616
buffoon1638
mimic1671
burlesque1676
parody1733
caricature1749
to take off1750
travesty1825
grotesque1875
cartoon1884
spoof1927
to send up1931
1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 673 The last time he came in, he was sent up unmercifully by half the room.
1957 ‘N. Blake’ End of Chapter 68 Who's Johnnie Ray? He's—go on! you're sending me up!
1962 John o' London's 29 Nov. 506/3 The effect..is as if he is attempting to ‘send up’ the whole picture.
1969 Times 13 Dec. p. v/2 These represented the British sense of humour, our genius for sending ourselves up, but they seem to me rather to be reinforcements of such attitudes.
1977 P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. xvii. 220 I wasn't sending you up the other night. I was afraid.
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