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  • 11send-up — UK / US or sendup UK [ˈsendˌʌp] / US noun [countable] Word forms send up : singular send up plural send ups informal a way of talking or behaving in which you copy the way that someone else talks or behaves in a humorous way He does a brilliant… …

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  • 12send — I verb ablegare, advance, broadcast, cast, circulate, convey, direct, discharge, dismiss, dispatch, displace, drive, ejaculate, eject, emit, emittere, export, fling, forward, freight, give, give forth, hurl, impel, issue, jaculate, launch, mail,… …

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  • 13send — (v.) O.E. sendan send, send forth, throw, from P.Gmc. *sandijanan (Cf. O.S. sendian, O.N., O.Fris. senda, M.L.G., M.Du. senden, Goth. sandjan), causative form of base *sinþan, denoting go, journey (source of O.E. sið way, journey, O.N. sinn, Goth …

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  • 14send|up — send up or send|up «SEHND UHP», noun. a parody or satire: »It [the book] is a splendidly detached send up of the brainy female (Punch). ╂[< the British slang phrase send up to scoff at, mock, originally public school slang meaning to send a… …

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  • 15send-up — (n.) a spoof, British slang, 1958, from earlier verb phrase send up to mock, make fun of (1931), from send + up, perhaps a transf. sense of the public school term for to send a boy to the headmaster (usually for punishment), which is attested… …

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  • 16Send — Send, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also {scend}.] W. C. Russell. The send of the sea . Longfellow. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 17Send — Send, v. i. 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. [1913 Webster] See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings vi. 32. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends… …

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  • 18Send! — is a publication of Gospel For Asia. The magazine is published four times per year, and includes articles on mission work in Asia. It also has articles on individuals whose lives have been changed by Jesus Christ, and other missionary activities …

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  • 19send-up — /send up /, n. an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send up of TV game shows. Also, sendup. [1955 60; n. use of v. phrase send up, in sense to parody ; cf. earlier Brit. academic usage to mock …

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  • 20send-up — n informal a film, article, show etc that copies someone or something in a way that makes them seem funny or silly send up of ▪ a hilarious send up of a Hollywood disaster movie …

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