SEND OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send out mean? 

• SEND OUT (verb)
  The verb SEND OUT has 1 sense:

1. to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

  Familiarity information: SEND OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

send; send out

Context example:

He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept

Hypernyms (to "send out" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "send out"):

send in (mail in; cause to be delivered)

mail out (transmit by mail)

get off; mail (send via the postal service)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

The seizures happen when clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain send out the wrong signals.

(Epilepsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

There have been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters of strange properties, and gases that kill or make to vivify.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Bid the sub-chancellor send out to them Thomas the lector to read unto them from the 'Gesta beati Benedicti.'

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars will be outstandingly supportive to this full moon, so if you are owed a sum, start to send out reminder statements at the start of the month—you may see the funds come in within five days of the full moon, February 8-9.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the brain, grey matter is comprised primarily of neuron cell bodies, while white matter is made up of bundles of axons, which are the projections neurons send out to connect with one another.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

South of the Adour the jagged line of mountains which fringe the sky-line send out long granite claws, running down into the lowlands and dividing them into “gaves” or stretches of valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If one or more people owe you money, you might have to wait for payment, so do your best to send out reminder notes early in the month, most beneficially in the first week.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)