outsending

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

Anagrams

• sending out