Sender
['sendə] or ['sɛndɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who transmits a message; 'return to sender'.
Checked by Danny--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who sends.
Edited by Ian
Examples
- My attention was arrested by the fact that he walked off after responding, and the sender happened to be a good one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sender went right along, and when he finished with six messages closed his key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She had never before made any allusion to the flowers, and he supposed she had never thought of him as the sender. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Have you informed the sender? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When this was told to the sender far away in the squalid little town of Medina, he was very angry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of these was that so messages might be sent understandable by the sender and receiver, but not plain to the uninitiated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such were Gregory I (590-604) the Great, the first monkish Pope, the friend of Benedict, the sender of the English mission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Weir, or Charlie, as he was known, at that time agent for the Adams Express Company, had the remarkable ability of taking messages and copying them twenty-five words behind the sender. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For these reasons he has very little to do with letters, either as sender or receiver. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In fact, I was a very poor sender, and therefore made the taking of press report a specialty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was a first-class receiver and rapid sender. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Weir coolly asked for a pen, and when he sat down the sender was just one message ahead of him with date, address, and signature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which it would take the senders to travel the distance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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