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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

外送

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wài sòng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Send-out/ˈsɛndˌaʊt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个样本需要外送至专科实验室进行检测。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A specimen, sample, or item sent away from a primary facility or laboratory to an external institution for specialized testing or processing.

    "The hospital laboratory handled routine tests locally, but rare pathology samples required a send-out to a national facility."
  2. 2

    A distribution or dispatch of printed materials, goods, or promotional items to a wide audience.

    "The marketing team prepared the monthly catalog send-out for all registered subscribers."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb phrase 'send out', combining the Old English 'sendan' (to cause to go, dispatch) with the adverbial particle 'out' (from Old English 'ūt'). The phrasal noun use emerged in corporate, printing, and laboratory contexts during the 20th century to designate items, specimens, or work dispatched to an external location for processing.

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