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]
scend also sendAudio Help (sěnd) Pronunciation Key
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.]
To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.
To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.
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.
To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.
v.
intr.
To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.
To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.
Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.
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.
To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.
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 for
To request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon.
send in
To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.
Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.
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 off Sports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules.
send up Informal
To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.
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 packing
To 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.
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.
cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
2.
to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"
3.
cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail]
Send\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent; p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. s["a]nda, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[=i]?, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t. Cf. Sense.]1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. --Jer. xxiii. 21. I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. --John viii. 42. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. --Swift. 2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message. He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. --Esther viii. 10. O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. --Ps. xliii. 3. 3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like. 4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!" --Shak. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. --Deut. xxviii. 20. And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. --Matt. v. 45. God send your mission may bring back peace. --Sir W. Scott.
Send\, v. i. 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? --2 Kings vi. 32. 2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. --Totten. To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Send\, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] --W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". --Longfellow.
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