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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.

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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

SYNONYMS FOR send

2 transmit, dispatch, forward.

4 cast, hurl, fling, project.

ANTONYMS FOR send

1 receive.

Related formssend·a·ble, adjective

Can be confusedscend send

Definition for sends (2 of 3)

send

[ send ]

/ sɛnd /

Nautical

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

scend.

Definition for sends (3 of 3)

scend

or send

[ send ]

/ sɛnd /

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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Examples from the Web for sends

Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott.
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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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.
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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|DAILY BEAST
A higher place is taken in his work by the longest poem he sends his brother in the same metre, Fancy.
Life of John Keats|Sidney Colvin
The descendant of Joel sends this to the descendant of the Nerowegs.
The Carlovingian Coins|Eugne Sue
He sends down his wickedness to the country and tempts weak folks to sin.
Gallegher and Other Stories|Richard Harding Davis
Every day we read the story of some vessel tempest-tossed, which sends forth a wireless message and would otherwise be lost.
Uncle Walt [Walt Mason]|Walt Mason
You say, he sends, he asks doubtless whether he should send.
Egmont|Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

British Dictionary definitions for sends (1 of 3)

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

British Dictionary definitions for sends (2 of 3)

send

/ (sɛnd) /

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

British Dictionary definitions for sends (3 of 3)

send

/ (sɛnd) /

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.

send

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

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

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Definition for sends (2 of 3)

send

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

Definition for sends (3 of 3)

scend

or send

verb (used without object) (of a vessel)

noun

Origin of scend

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British Dictionary definitions for sends (1 of 3)

scend

send

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

noun

Word Origin for scend

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send

verb sends, sending or sent

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for sends (3 of 3)

send

verb, noun sends, sending or sent

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