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oversend

verb

Etymology

From Middle English oversenden (“to send over, transmit”), from Old English ofersendan (“to transmit”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *sandijaną (“to send”), corresponding to over- + send. Cognate with Middle Dutch oversenden (“to send over”), German übersenden (“to send, transmit”).

  1. derived from *uber✻ — “over”
  2. inherited from ofersendan — “to transmit”
  3. inherited from oversenden — “to send over, transmit”

Definitions

  1. To send an amount greater than what is required

    To send an amount greater than what is required; to oversupply.

    • Yes; and unfortunately sometimes we overorder, and sometimes they oversend, and much of it is thrown away.
    • As much as parents oversend the message to their millennial children that they are special, there is no denying that the millennial generation is special in some ways.

  2. To send (a message, etc.) to too many people.

  3. To send over, transmit.

    • DEAR SIR I do hereby oversend you my memorandum for fall goods and an other from Dr. C. Miller for Medicine.
    • In order of Mr. J. Hoffmann, of Prague, I oversend you with this an exemplar of the 'épreuves corrigées' of Labitzky's waltz, Op. 86.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A transmission that is larger than it should be.

      • Oversends will occur occasionally, since the flow control information is always slightly out of date and it is possible for the receiver to withdraw flow control credits.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for oversend. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA