send

¹

[ send ]

verb (used with object)

, sent, send·ing.

1. to cause, permit, or enable to go:

   to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.

   Antonyms: receive

2. to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination:

   to send a letter.

   Synonyms: forward, dispatch, transmit

3. to order, direct, compel, or force to go:

   The president sent troops to Asia.

4. to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction:

   to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling.

   Synonyms: project, fling, hurl, cast

5. to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through ):

   The lion sent a roar through the jungle.

6. to cause to occur or befall:

   The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.

7. Electricity.
   1. to transmit (a signal).
   2. to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.
8. Slang. to delight or excite:

   Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.

verb (used without object)

, sent, send·ing.

1. to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
2. Electricity. to transmit a signal:

   The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.

verb phrase

1. 1. to release or cause to go upward; let out.
   2. Informal. to sentence or send to prison:

      He was convicted and sent up for life.

   3. to expose the flaws or foibles of through parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, or other forms of satire:

      The new movie sends up merchants who commercialize Christmas.

2. to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination:

   Send in your contest entries to this station.

3. 1. to produce; bear; yield:

      plants sending forth new leaves.

   2. to dispatch out of a country as an export.
   3. to issue, as a publication:

      They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.

   4. to emit or discharge:

      The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.

4. to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss:

   His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.

5. British. to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
6. 1. to distribute; issue.
   2. to send on the way; dispatch:

      They sent out their final shipment last week.

   3. to order delivery:

      We sent out for coffee.

7. to request the coming or delivery of; summon:

   If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.

send

²

[ send ]

verb (used without object)

, sent, send·ing,

1. scend.

send

¹

/ sɛnd /

verb

1. See scend
   a variant spelling of scend

send

²

/ sɛnd /

verb

1. tr to cause or order (a person or thing) to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

   she sent the salesman away

   to send a letter

2. when intr, foll byfor;when tr, takes an infinitive to dispatch a request or command (for something or to do something)

   he sent to his son to come home

   he sent for a bottle of wine

3. tr to direct or cause to go to a place or point

   his blow sent the champion to the floor

4. tr to bring to a state or condition

   this noise will send me mad

5. tr; often foll by forth, out, etc to cause to issue; emit

   his cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen

6. tr to cause to happen or come

   misery sent by fate

7. to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses
8. slang.
   tr to move to excitement or rapture

   this music really sends me

9. send someone about his business
   send someone about his business to dismiss or get rid of someone
10. send someone packing
    send someone packing to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily

noun

1. See swash
   another word for swash

Derived Forms

• ˈsender, noun
• ˈsendable, adjective

Other Words From

• senda·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of send¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English senden, Old English sendan; cognate with German senden, Gothic sandjan; akin to Old English sīth “journey,” sand “message, messenger”

Word History and Origins

Origin of send¹

Old English sendan; related to Old Norse senda, Gothic sandjan, Old High German senten

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace:

   The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.

2. send round, to circulate or dispatch widely:

   Word was sent round about his illness.

Example Sentences

This way, you can send your customers important information related to your new offers and product launch.

From Search Engine Watch

What he calls the “slow work” of such network-building goes far beyond sending out a link for sign-up.

From MIT Technology Review

That unleashed the “one-and-done era,” fifteen years during which the NBA has mandated that all players be at least 19 or a year removed from high school, sending even most NBA-ready talents to college.

From Washington Post

Take a picture of your piece or another in the same set, upload it to the website, answer a few questions, and a curator will not only send you information on the manufacturer and pattern, but also on what the company has in stock, along with prices.

From Washington Post

To get around this, the UK study looked at how many notifications got sent and compared the data with what scientists know about the behavior of the virus itself.

From MIT Technology Review

And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.

From The Daily Beast

If nobody on the outside will send Teresa money, should she learn a prison hustle?

From The Daily Beast

Johnson knew that the proposals he was going to send to the Hill would be divisive.

From The Daily Beast

The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.

From The Daily Beast

After all, there is only one sure-fire message that I can send by putting a Coexist sticker on the back of my car.

From The Daily Beast

With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.

From Project Gutenberg

Messa urges the king to send a new governor, and gives his advice as to the character of him who should be sent.

From Project Gutenberg

But in the end his health gave way, and the Emperor himself wrote to Prince Eugne telling him to send the old warrior home.

From Project Gutenberg

But the great number of Indians still unconverted demands many more missionaries, whom the king is urged to send.

From Project Gutenberg

If I can rustle horses I'll send these two boys on home, with a note to the old man explaining how the play came up.

From Project Gutenberg

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