Upsend
Origin
From - + send. Cognate with Scots upsend ("to ascend"), Dutch opzenden ("to redirect, forward"), Low German upsenden ("to send up, deliver (mail)"), Swedish uppsända ("to offer up").
Full definition of upsend
Verb
- (transitive) To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
- 1808, John Fitchett, Alfred, a poem:And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout ...
- 1873, Aeschylus, The Dramas of Aeschylus:Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend; ...
- 1981, Doris May Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell:Down and down, but the corky sea upsends me to the light again, and there under my hand is rock, a port in the storm, a little peaking black rock that no main mariner has struck before me, nor map ever charted, just a single black basalt rock, ...
- 2003, Marc Silva, The Short, Mad Reign of Humanity:When LaBarca and I finally made it to the cove North of Vera Cruz, I split the group upsending LaBarca, DaCosta and the rest on to the Western hideout while young Cerrano, whose father was killed in the war with the extraterrestrials, ...
- (intransitive, US, Scotland) To ascend; climb up.
- 1919, Harry Lyman Koopman, Hesperia: an American national poem:But when the sun of the fifth day had risen, The Keepers of the Faith, upon a pyre Built near the council-house, with solemn rites Burnt the White Dog, upsending with the smoke The message of their loyalty and thanks.
Noun
upsend
(plural upsends)- That which is upsent, or sent up; a deliverable.
- 1982, American Bankers Association, ABA banking journal:The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification.
- 2008, Independent Bankers Association of America, Independent banker:For example, with a variety of upsend and downsend customer units, and upsend and downsend teller units, we can mix-and-match standard components to create the custom configuration designed to best meet your unique operational ...