Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old, and historically more correct, spelling of scent.
- n. Assent.
- n. Preterit and past participle of send.
- n. A Middle English contracted form of sendeth, third person singular present indicative of send.
- n. An absolete spelling of saint.
- An amended and former spelling of scent.
Wiktionary
- n. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of an Estonian kroon
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of send.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted
- n. 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
Etymologies
- See send (Wiktionary)
- Estonian, from English cent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oh, how contented a Sister sent on the mission would be, if she realized that God himself _sent_ her and _accompanied_ her.”
“A telegram has been sent to the Stavka; and an answer received says that a strong detachment of troops is being sent .”
“That they gave us up -- that they sent us -- _sent_ us!”
“And, possibly, the word 'proceeds' is chosen in order to contrast with the word 'sent,' and to give the idea of a voluntary and personal action of the Messenger, who not only is _sent_ by the”
“They must be thorough, though; the label sent me a Word document that reveals plenty.”
“And then a deadly assassin sent from a race called the Mein, exiled long ago to an ice-locked stronghold in the frozen north, strikes at Leodan in the heart of Acacia while they unleash surprise attacks across the empire.”
“Just the mention of her name sent the teenagers in my high school running in terror.”
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“Panda relates similar stories of demented grannies his term sent over from nursing homes to be tortured to death scheduled for surgeries and other endless treatments that are clearly futile.”
“The way he said her name sent shivers up her spine, reminding her of Italian lessons and the romantic sound of the overture to La Bohème she used to play over and over after Giovanni left and went back to Italy.”
“I had to write another letter, this one to the husband, to say that I hoped the diagnosis would prove to be inaccurate, that I sympathized with him in the sorrow he must have in the serious illness of his wife, but that it was impossible to withdraw the name sent in.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sent’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 74 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Triple Homonyms
mete, meat, meet, prize, prise, pries, seas, sees, seize, laze, lays, leis and 48 more...
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