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undersend

undersend verb: to send beneath, under, or through; submit.

Verb

undersend (third-person singular simple present undersends, present participle undersending, simple past and past participle undersent)

  1. (transitive) To send beneath, under, or through; submit.
    • Is sorry Sir Bassingbourne should have so much trouble in getting his glass. Undersends the charge.1895, Francis Rye, Mrs. Amy (Haslam) Rye, Walter Rye, Calendar of correspondence and documents
    • About the time when the United States undersent a change in its status, the change projected into the Korea-United States relations was expressed in the form of the problem of the U.S. troop withdrawal.1977, Han'guk Chŏngsin Munhwa Yŏn'guwŏn, Korea observer
  2. (ambitransitive) To send less than required, needed, or requested.
    • One approach would be to build a meter that looks at the very long-term average rate, and allows the TCP to send so long as that average is less than the target rate. However, this has the severe drawback that if the TCP undersends for some time because it has no data to send, it builds up a credit...1997, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-clark-diff-svc-alloc-00
    • […] for you to oversend something, couldn't it have been just as easy to undersend something?2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005336/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=14372&tstart=-1

Noun

undersend (plural undersends)

  1. That which is undersent or submitted.
    • We are also able to evaluate oversends and undersends and trends in our system.2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20130315153440/http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/ems/community/emdprogram.aspx?print=1

Forms of undersend

Verb
third-person singular presentundersends
present participleundersending
past participleundersent
pastundersent
Noun
pluralundersends

Origin of undersend

From Middle English *undersenden (attested only in the past participle undersent), equivalent to under- + send. Compare Dutch onderzenden, Middle High German undersenden.

Questions about undersend

What does undersend mean?
Undersend means to send beneath, under, or through; submit.
What part of speech is undersend?
Undersend can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of undersend?
The past tense of undersend is undersent.

Words near undersend in the dictionary

  1. underseller
  2. undersellers
  3. underselling
  4. undersells
  5. underselves
  6. undersend
  7. undersending
  8. undersends
  9. undersense
  10. undersensed
  11. undersenses

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