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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.
EXPANDto emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.
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.
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Send for
is always a great word to know.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
11.
send down, British. to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
12.
send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
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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.
EXPANDsend 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.
COLLAPSEsend 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.
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:
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
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 forms
send·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
2. transmit, dispatch, forward. 4. cast, hurl, fling, project.
2. transmit, dispatch, forward. 4. cast, hurl, fling, project.
Antonyms
1. receive.
1. receive.
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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
EXPANDbase *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.
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Slang Dictionary
send (so) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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