From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + 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”).
Meanings
(uncountable) The ability to send up, or transmit.
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 […] 2008, Independent banker, Independent Bankers Association of America:
The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification. 1982, American Bankers Association, ABA banking journal:
From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + 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”).
Meanings
(archaic, transitive) To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
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, [...] 1981, Doris May Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell:
And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout [...] 1808, John Fitchett, Alfred, a poem:
Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend; [...] 1873, Aeschylus, The Dramas of Aeschylus:
(Scotland, US, intransitive) To ascend; climb up.
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. 1919, Harry Lyman Koopman, Hesperia: an American national poem: