What's the difference between air and send?

Air


Definition:

  • (n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
  • (n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
  • (n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
  • (n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
  • (n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
  • (n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
  • (n.) That which surrounds and influences.
  • (n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
  • (n.) Intelligence; information.
  • (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
  • (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.
  • (n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
  • (n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.
  • (n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
  • (n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
  • (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
  • (n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
  • (n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
  • (n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
  • (n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (3) Sperm were examined at 4.5 h, 8 to 9 h, and 24 to 25 h of incubation (37 degrees C, 5% CO2, and 95% air).
  • (4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (5) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (6) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
  • (7) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (9) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (10) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
  • (11) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
  • (12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
  • (13) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (14) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (15) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (16) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
  • (17) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (18) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
  • (19) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
  • (20) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.

Send


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
  • (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
  • (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • (v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • (v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
  • (n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (3) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (4) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (5) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (6) A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes and associated procedures, such as various sedation regimes and antacid therapy, in intensive care units was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to physicians in charge of intensive care units in 70 acute hospitals which included seven main teaching hospitals.
  • (7) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
  • (8) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (9) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (10) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
  • (11) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
  • (12) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
  • (13) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (14) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (15) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (16) I stand by my decision to send my son to Park View.
  • (17) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
  • (18) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
  • (19) These cell bodies send a diffuse projection of processes throughout the spinal cord, including: (1) a dense projection to the ventral surface; (2) a strong projection to the ventromedial longitudinal fiber tracts; (3) a less intense projection to the dorsal longitudinal fiber tracts; and (4) a weak projection to the lateral fiber tracts.
  • (20) Indiana Indiana began to purge inactive voters in may 2014 by sending postcards to all registered voters.

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