outsending

      English

      Etymology

      From outsend, equivalent to out- +‎ sending or outsend +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch uitsending (broadcast, emission, transmission), German Aussendung (a sending out), Swedish utsändning (broadcast).

      Noun

      outsending (plural outsendings)

      1. A message abroad; a thing sent out.
        • 1902, Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier, Shakspere and His Forerunners:
          [...] 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.
      2. A transmission; broadcast.
        • 1987, Dipak Khakhar, Information network and data communication:
          Active stereoradio function simultaneously with looking at a local videoprogram and a simultaneous outsending of a private videoprogram [...]

      Verb

      outsending

      1. Present participle of outsend.

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      Last modified on 26 March 2013, at 01:15