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Sended vs Tended - What's the difference?

sended | tended |

As verbs the difference between sended and tended

is that sended is past tense of send while tended is past tense of tend.

sended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (send)

  • send

    English

    Verb

  • To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  • * 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
  • The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.
  • * 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,
  • Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
  • * 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
  • Baby you send me.
  • To bring to a certain condition
  • * 1913 , ,
  • “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.
  • To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
  • See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
  • To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • * Shakespeare
  • God send him well!
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
  • The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • God send your mission may bring back peace.
  • (nautical) To pitch.
  • * Totten
  • The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

    Synonyms

    * (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mail

    Derived 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 * upsend

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
  • sends and receives
  • (nautical)
  • The send of the sea. — Longfellow.

    Statistics

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    tended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tend)
  • Anagrams

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    tend

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tenden, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
  • Derived terms
    * (l), (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • (followed by a to infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain characteristic.
  • They tend to go out on Saturdays.
    It tends to snow here in winter.
    Usage notes
    * In sense 2. this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See
    Derived terms
    * tendency

    See also

    * be given to

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
  • We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
  • To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
  • Shepherds tend their flocks.
  • * Emerson
  • There's not a sparrow or a wren, / There's not a blade of autumn grain, / Which the four seasons do not tend / And tides of life and increase lend.
  • To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Was he not companion with the riotous knights / That tend upon my father?
  • (obsolete) To await; to expect.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
  • * Chapman
  • Being to descend / A ladder much in height, I did not tend / My way well down.
  • (nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
  • Anagrams

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