onsend

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verb

To send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.

OriginMiddle English onsenden ← Old English onsendan →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person onsends · participle present onsending · participle past onsent · past onsent

  1. transitiveTo 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
    1 more example

    […] 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

Origin

  1. Old Englishonsendan“to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to”
  2. Middle Englishonsenden
  3. Englishonsend

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

onsend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onsend

MLA

“onsend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onsend. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “onsend,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onsend.

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