different between deliver vs upsend

English

Alternative forms

• delivre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin d? + l?ber? (“to set free”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: de?liv?er

Verb

deliver (third-person singular simple present delivers, present participle delivering, simple past and past participle delivered)

1. To set free from restraint or danger.

   Synonyms: free, liberate, release

2. (process) To do with birth.
   1. To assist in the birth of.

   2. (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

      • Sche was delivered sauf and sone

   3. To give birth to.

3. To free from or disburden of anything.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman

     Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

4. To bring or transport something to its destination.
5. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
6. (intransitive, informal) To produce what was expected or required.
   • 2004, Detroit News, Detroit Pistons: Champions at Work (page 86)

     "You know, he plays great sometimes when he doesn't score," Brown said. "Tonight, with Rip (Richard Hamilton) struggling, we needed somebody to step up, and he really did. He really delivered."
7. To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

8. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

   • shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
9. To discover; to show.
10. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

11. (medicine) To administer a drug.

Synonyms

• (to set free): free, loose, rid, outbring
• (to express): utter, outbring
• (produce what was required): come through, come up with the goods

Derived terms

• delivery
• deliverable
• deliver the goods

Translations

Anagrams

• delivre, livered, relived, reviled

English

Etymology

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”).

Verb

upsend (third-person singular simple present upsends, present participle upsending, simple past and past participle upsent)

1. (transitive, archaic) 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, [...]

2. (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)

1. 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 [...]

Anagrams

• ends up, send up, send-up, sendup, unsped, up-ends, upends