"sending" meaning in English

See sending in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɛndɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-sending.ogg [US] Forms: sendings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} sending (plural sendings)
  1. The act by which somebody or something is sent.
    Sense id: en-sending-en-noun-qaI2JLhJ

Verb

IPA: /ˈsɛndɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-sending.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sending
  1. present participle and gerund of send Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: send
    Sense id: en-sending-en-verb-mWI5lLt4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for sending meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "sending",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1",
          "text": "One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "send"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of send"
      ],
      "id": "en-sending-en-verb-mWI5lLt4",
      "links": [
        [
          "send",
          "send#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg/En-us-sending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sending"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sendings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sending (plural sendings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent",
          "text": "Both Matthew and Luke have three sendings of servants, but the narratives are framed differently. Matthew has two sendings of servants (plural) to the original guests, two excuses offered for the refusal, and one sending of servants to the substitute guests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which somebody or something is sent."
      ],
      "id": "en-sending-en-noun-qaI2JLhJ"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg/En-us-sending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sending"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verb forms",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "sending",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1",
          "text": "One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "send"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of send"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "send",
          "send#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg/En-us-sending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sending"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verb forms",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sendings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sending (plural sendings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent",
          "text": "Both Matthew and Luke have three sendings of servants, but the narratives are framed differently. Matthew has two sendings of servants (plural) to the original guests, two excuses offered for the refusal, and one sending of servants to the substitute guests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which somebody or something is sent."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛndɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg/En-us-sending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-sending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sending"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.