SENT (senti)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: senti   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sent mean? 

• SENT (noun)
  The noun SENT has 1 sense:

1. 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

  Familiarity information: SENT used as a noun is very rare.

• SENT (adjective)
  The adjective SENT has 1 sense:

1. caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted

  Familiarity information: SENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("sent" is a kind of...):

Estonian monetary unit (monetary unit in Estonia)

• SENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted

Antonym:

unsent (not dispatched or transmitted)

 Context examples 

My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took my state and college exams at home under the gaze of a homeschool teacher sent by the Board of Education.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How often I stopped with the intention of returning, and yet every time my pride conquered my fear, and sent me on again until my object should be attained.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another bang of the street door sent the basket under the sofa, and the girls to the table, eager for breakfast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the next morning the soldier with the green whiskers came to the Tin Woodman and said: Oz has sent for you. Follow me.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I sent him away with smiles.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He would have sent you a description of everything and everybody.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then on the third day, he sent for all his huntsmen, and said: “Scour the whole forest through, and do not give up until you have found all three.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)