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1  [send] verb, sent, send⋅ing.
Use Send in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
2. to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.
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.
5. to emit, discharge, or utter (usually fol. 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.
a. to transmit (a signal).
b. 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)
9. to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
10. Electricity. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.
—Verb phrases
11. send down, British. to expel, esp. from Oxford or Cambridge.
12. send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
13. send forth,
a. to produce; bear; yield: plants sending forth new leaves.
b. to dispatch out of a country as an export.
c. to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.
d. to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.
14. send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.
15. send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
16. send out,
a. to distribute; issue.
b. to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week.
c. to order delivery: We sent out for coffee.
17. send up,
a. to release or cause to go upward; let out.
b. Informal. to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life.
c. 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
18. send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.
19. send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME senden, OE sendan; c. G senden, Goth sandjan (causative) < Gmc base *sinth-, *santh- go, whence OE sīth journey, sand message, messenger

Related forms:
send⋅a⋅ble, adjective

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

Antonyms:
1. receive.
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2  [send] verb (used without object), sent, send⋅ing, noun Nautical
scend.

scend

  [send] Nautical
–verb (used without object) (of a vessel)
1. to heave in a swell.
2. to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.
–noun
3. the heaving motion of a vessel.
4. the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.
Also, send.

Origin:
1615–25; cf. send 2 ; perh. aph. var. of ascend, descend
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scend also send   (sěnd)   
intr.v.   scend·ed also send·ed, scend·ing also send·ing, scends also sends
To heave upward on a wave or swell.
n.  The rising movement of a ship on a wave or swell.

[Probably alteration (influenced by descend or ascend) of send1.]
send 1   (sěnd)   
v.   sent (sěnt), send·ing, sends

v.   tr.

  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.

    1. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.

    2. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.

    3. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.

    4. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.

    5. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.

    6. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.

    7. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

    1. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.

    2. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.

    3. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.

    4. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

  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.

    1. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.

    2. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

v.   intr.

  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.

  4. To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.

  5. Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.

  6. 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.

  7. To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.

  8. To make a parody of: "grandiloquently eccentric but witty verbiage . . . that would send up the nastiness of suburban London" (New York).

Phrasal Verb(s):
send down Chiefly British To suspend or dismiss from a university.
send forTo request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon.
send in

  1. To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.

  2. Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.

  3. 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 offSports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules.
send up Informal

  1. To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.

  2. To make a parody of: "grandiloquently eccentric but witty verbiage . . . that would send up the nastiness of suburban London" (New York).


Idiom(s):
send flying Informal To cause to be knocked or scattered about with force: a blow to the table that sent the dishes flying.

Idiom(s):
send packingTo dismiss (someone) abruptly.

[Middle English senden, from Old English sendan; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]
send'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to cause to go or be taken to a destination: sent the package by parcel post; dispatched a union representative to the factory; forwards the mail to their new address; routed the soldiers through New York; shipped his books to his dormitory; transmits money by cable.
send 2   (sěnd)   
v.   & n. Nautical
Variant of scend.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
send (so)

  1. tv.
    to kill someone. : One shot sent him to glory.
  2. tv.
    to officiate at the burial services for someone. : The preacher sent him to glory amidst the sobs of six or seven former fans.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

send 
O.E. sendan "send, send forth, throw," from P.Gmc. *sandijanan (cf. O.S. sendian, O.N., O.Fris. senda, M.L.G., M.Du. senden, Goth. sandjan), causative form of base *sinþan, denoting "go, journey" (source of O.E. sið "way, journey," O.N. sinn, Goth. sinþs "going, walk, time"), from PIE base *sent- "to head for, go" (cf. Lith. siusti "send;" see sense). Also used in O.E. of divine ordinance (cf. godsend, from O.E. sand "messenger, message," from P.Gmc. *sandaz "that which is sent"). Slang sense of "to transport with emotion, delight" is recorded from 1932, in Amer.Eng. jazz slang. Send-off "farewell" (especially a funeral) is from 1872.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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