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onsend

onsend verb: to send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.

Verb

onsend (third-person singular simple present onsends, present participle onsending, simple past and past participle onsent)

  1. (transitive) To send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.
    • Through machines' capacity to store and forward, the packet of information or file can sit wherever it is until the machine is able to onsend it.2001, Julia Rosalyn Baird, Copyright and the Internet
    • […] to be routed through Reichsmarschall Goering's liaison to Party Leader Bormann for permission to onsend to Sicherheitsdienst/OKW/appropriate Luftforschungsamt […]2009, Brendan Howley, John J. Loftus, The Witness Tree

Forms of onsend

third-person singular presentonsends
present participleonsending
past participleonsent
pastonsent

Origin of onsend

From Middle English onsenden, from Old English onsendan (“to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to”), equivalent to on- + send.

Questions about onsend

What does onsend mean?
Onsend means to send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.
What part of speech is onsend?
Onsend is a verb.
What is the past tense of onsend?
The past tense of onsend is onsent.

Words near onsend in the dictionary

  1. onsell
  2. onselling
  3. onsells
  4. onsen
  5. onsen tamago
  6. onsend
  7. onsending
  8. onsends
  9. onsens
  10. onset
  11. onsets

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