Relay vs Send - What's the difference?
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(by extension) A new set of anything.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
To pass on or transfer (information).
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
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, title= (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
* 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
* 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,
* 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
To bring to a certain condition
* 1913 , ,
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
* Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) To pitch.
* Totten
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
(nautical)
Send is a synonym of relay.
In transitive terms the difference between relay and send
is that relay is to pass on or transfer (information) while send is to make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.As nouns the difference between relay and send
is that relay is a new set of hounds while send is an operation in which data is transmitted.As verbs the difference between relay and send
is that relay is to release a new set of hounds while send is to make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.relay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Derived terms
* relay raceVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (to relay a message) conveyEtymology 2
send
English
Verb
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.
- Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
- Baby you send me.
- “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
- The other two were silent for a few moments.
- “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- God send him well!
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
- The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Synonyms
* (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mailDerived terms
* besend * downsend * foresend * forsend * forthsend * insend * missend * offsend * onsend * outsend * oversend * send a message * send around * send away * send back * send down * send for * send in * send off/send-off * send on * send out * send someone packing * send someone to the showers * send to Coventry * send up/send-up * upsendNoun
(en noun)- sends and receives
- The send of the sea. — Longfellow.