sender

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  1. One who sends. Exe. This was a merry message. K. Hen. We hope to make the sender blush at it. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 299.
  2. In telegraphy and telephony, the instrument by means of which a message is transmitted, as distinguished from the receiver at the other end of the line; also, the person transmitting. See curb-sender.
  3. Zinc sender in telegraphy, a transmitting device used on cables, and so arranged as to send a reversed current after each signaling impulse. This tends to neutralize the charge of the cables and increases the speed of signaling.

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  • Anything the receiver does which is counter to the basic patterns of the sender is automatically rejected as illogical And now I have described our species. —  SEPTEMBER, 1953 Vol
  • Yet I have no way of checking it or naming the sender, who claims to be a student of mine. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • * MMS2R:: Media#is_mobile? best guess if the sender was a mobile device —  RubyForge Gems
  • And finally, in looking through all of the past two weeks 'e-mail, the award for the most unusual screen name goes to SnipItTheClown -- which made me wonder whether the sender was a vasectomist who does stand-up. —  SplicedFeed
  • The detail screen also shows current time where the sender is. —  Enterprise Irregulars
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  1. from Middle English sendere; from send + -er.
 

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