Rends vs Sends - What's the difference?
rends | sends |
(rend)
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
(send)
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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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)
As verbs the difference between rends and sends
is that rends is (rend) while sends is (send).rends
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(head)Anagrams
* ----rend
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- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----sends
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(head)send
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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.
