Meanings
plural outsendings
- A message abroad; something that is sent out.
[…] with that comparison which I think sometimes is the mightiest in our language — that comparison of this successive outsending and inbringing of the worlds by the Creator at the centre of things to the beating of the heart of God.
1902, Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier, Shakspere and His Forerunners - A transmission; broadcast.
Active stereoradio function simultaneously with looking at a local videoprogram and a simultaneous outsending of a private videoprogram […]
1987, Dipak Khakhar, Information network and data communication
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outsend
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From outsend, equivalent to out- + sending or outsend + -ing. Cognate with Dutch uitsending (“broadcast, emission, transmission”), German Aussendung (“a sending out”), Swedish utsändning (“broadcast”).
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