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verb (used with object), sent, send·ing.

to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.

to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.

to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia.

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.

to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.

to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.

Electricity.

to transmit (a signal).
to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.

Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.

verb (used without object), sent, send·ing.

to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.

Electricity. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.

Verb Phrases

send down, British. to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.

send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.

send forth,

to produce; bear; yield: plants sending forth new leaves.
to dispatch out of a country as an export.
to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.
to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.

send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.

send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.

send out,

to distribute; issue.
to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week.
to order delivery: We sent out for coffee.

send up,

to release or cause to go upward; let out.
Informal.to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life.
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.

Idioms

send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.

send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness.

Origin of send

before 900; Middle English senden, Old English sendan; cognate with German senden, Gothic sandjan (causative) < Germanic base *sinth-, *santh- go, whence Old English sīth journey, sand message, messenger

Related formssend·a·ble, adjective

Can be confusedscend send

Synonyms for send

2. transmit, dispatch, forward. 4. cast, hurl, fling, project.

Antonyms for send

1. receive.

send

[send]Nautical

verb (used without object), sent, send·ing, noun

scend.

scend

or send

[send]Nautical

verb (used without object) (of a vessel)

to heave in a swell.

to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.

noun

the heaving motion of a vessel.

the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.

Origin of scend

1615–25; cf. send²; perhaps aphetic variant of ascend, descend

Can be confusedscend send

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Related Words for sends

shoot, express, relay, grant, post, drop, deliver, dispatch, fire, address, forward, commit, ship, issue, assign, circulate, move, convey, propel, televise

Examples from the Web for sends

Contemporary Examples of sends

Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott.
Cuba Protects America’s Most Wanted
Michael Daly
December 18, 2014
Hitchcock sends the script--unread--to Thom Mount and his superior, Ned Tanen.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days
David Freeman
December 13, 2014
It was in Saint-Rémy where Van Gogh sends his brother word of how all his sacrifice may soon be for nothing in this life.
Decoding Vincent Van Gogh’s Tempestuous, Fragile Mind
Nick Mafi
December 7, 2014
She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun
Katie Baker
November 8, 2014
When civilians are massacred, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team (Emergencies Team) to document the war crimes.
'E-Team': James Foley's Last Film
Marlow Stern
August 21, 2014

Historical Examples of sends

The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches
Various
You go to him, Jake, or wait till he sends for you, an' you'll find out all about it.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser
What can Galloway expect, if he sends bank-notes in letters?
The Channings
Mrs. Henry Wood
Sends her fifty guineas in the leaves of a Norris's miscellanies.
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)
Samuel Richardson
She has poor relations somewhere, and sends the meal to them by Willie.
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
George MacDonald

British Dictionary definitions for sends

scend

send

nautical

verb scends, scending, scended, sends, sending or sent

(of a vessel) to surge upwards in a heavy sea

noun

the upward heaving of a vessel pitching

the forward lift given a vessel by the sea

Word Origin for scend

C17: perhaps from descend or ascend

send

verb sends, sending or sent

(tr) to cause or order (a person or thing) to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another placeto send a letter; she sent the salesman away

(when intr, foll by for;; when tr, takes an infinitive) to dispatch a request or command (for something or to do something)he sent for a bottle of wine; he sent to his son to come home

(tr) to direct or cause to go to a place or pointhis blow sent the champion to the floor

(tr) to bring to a state or conditionthis noise will send me mad

(tr; often foll by forth, out, etc) to cause to issue; emithis cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen

(tr) to cause to happen or comemisery sent by fate

to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses

(tr) slang to move to excitement or rapturethis music really sends me

send someone about his business to dismiss or get rid of someone

send someone packing to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily

noun

another word for swash (def. 4)

Word Origin for send

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

send

verb, noun sends, sending or sent

a variant spelling of scend

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Word Origin and History for sends

send

Old English sendan "send, send forth; throw, impel," from Proto-Germanic *sandijan (cf. Old Saxon sendian, Old Norse and Old Frisian senda, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch senden, Dutch zenden, German senden, Gothic sandjan), causative form of base *sinþan, denoting "go, journey" (source of Old English sið "way, journey," Old Norse sinn, Gothic sinþs "going, walk, time"), from PIE root *sent- "to head for, go" (cf. Lithuanian siusti "send;" see sense (n.)).

Also used in Old English of divine ordinance (e.g. godsend, from Old English sand "messenger, message," from Proto-Germanic *sandaz "that which is sent"). Slang sense of "to transport with emotion, delight" is recorded from 1932, in American English jazz slang.