send

(sĕnd)

verb sent sent (sĕnt), send·ing, sends verb, transitive

1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3. a. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
   b. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
   c. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
4. a. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
   b. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
7. a. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
   b. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

verb, intransitive

1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.

Phrasal Verbs: send down Chiefly British To suspend or dismiss from a university. send for To request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon. send in To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest. Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker. To cause (someone) to arrive in or become involved in a particular place or situation: The commander sent in the sappers. It's time to send in the lawyers. send off Sports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules. send up Informal To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years. To make a parody of: “grandiloquently eccentric but witty verbiage . . . that would send up the nastiness of suburban London” (New York).

Related Forms:

• sendˈer noun

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verb & n.
Nautical