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send (send)

transitive verb sent, sending send′·ing

    1. to cause to go or be carried; dispatch, convey, or transmit
    2. to dispatch, convey, or transmit (a letter, message, etc.) by mail, radio, etc.
  2. to ask, direct, or command to go send the boy home
  3. to arrange for the going of; enable to go or attend to send one's son to college
  4. to cause or force to move, as by releasing, hitting, discharging, throwing, etc. he sent the ball over the fence
  5. to bring or drive into some state or condition sent him to his ruin
  6. to cause to happen, come, etc.; give a misfortune sent by the gods
  7. ☆ Slang to make very excited or exhilarated; thrill

Etymology: ME senden < OE sendan, akin to Ger senden, Goth sandjan, caus. formation, “to cause to go” < IE base *sent-, to go, find out, discover > L sentire, to feel, sense, OIr sēt, way

intransitive verb

  1. to send a message, messenger, emissary, etc. to send for help
  2. to transmit, as by radio

Related Forms:

send Idioms

send around

to put into circulation

send away

to dispatch or banish

send down

Brit. to suspend or expel from a university

send flying

  1. to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  2. to stagger or repel, as with a blow
  3. to put to flight; rout
  4. to scatter abruptly in all directions

send for

  1. to ask for the arrival of; summon
  2. to place an order for; make a request for delivery of

send forth

to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.

send in

  1. to dispatch, hand in, or send to a central point or to one receiving
  2. to put (a player) into a game or contest

send off

  1. to mail or dispatch (a letter, gift, etc.)
  2. to dismiss
  3. to give a send-off to

send out

  1. to dispatch, distribute, issue, mail, etc. from a central point
  2. to send forth
  3. to send someone on an errand (for something)

send up

  1. to cause to rise, climb, or go up
  2. ☆ Informal to sentence to prison
  3. Brit., Informal to make seem ridiculous, esp. by parody
send2 definition

send (send)

noun

  1. the driving motion of a wave or the sea
  2. scend

Etymology: prob. < send, but infl. by ascend

intransitive verb

  1. to be plunged forward, as by a wave
  2. scend

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

send Synonyms

send

v.

  1. To dispatch

    transmit, forward, convey, advance, express, ship, mail, send forth, send out, send in, delegate, expedite, hasten, accelerate, entrain, post, address, rush off, hurry off, get under way, put under sail, give papers, provide with credentials, send out for, address to, commission, consign; see also export.

  2. To deliver

    convey, transfer, pack off, give, bestow, grant, confer, entrust, assign, impart, utter, give out; see also sense 1.

  3. To project

    propel, fling, hurl; see throw 1.

  4. To broadcast, usually electronically

    transmit, relay, wire, cable, broadcast, emit, televise, conduct, communicate; see also carry 2.


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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

send Usage Examples

Object

  • message: The brain is used to send a message to all parts of the body at all times.

Adjective complement

  • unsolicited: Please note that we do not pass on your e-mail details to any third party nor send unsolicited e-mail.

Particle object: out_obj

  • emails: Some departments were willing to release email addresses or to send out emails to students once participation had been agreed.
  • questionnaire: The Constabulary has sent out questionnaires to every victim of racist and homophobic crime.

Preposition: by

  • courier: Operational We are strictly mail order with specially designed packaging to protect your tender plants sent by overnight courier.
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Then said I,Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the L of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my 102 mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard thevoiceoftheLord,saying,Whomshall Isend, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

-Bible (Old Testament)

We are not about to send American boys 9,000 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ

As a woman I can't go towar, and I refuseto send anyone else.

-Rankin,Jeanette

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