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verb

simple past tense and past participle of send.

Example Sentences

Other former presidents were expected to sign the letter after it was sent.

He once sent a rotting fish to a pollster who irked him.

One particularly fierce storm sent hundreds of baby bats helplessly to the ground.

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Other former presidents were expected to sign the letter after it was sent.

He once sent a rotting fish to a pollster who irked him.

One particularly fierce storm sent hundreds of baby bats helplessly to the ground.

In both cases, innocent people can be sent to death row while the guilty walk.

She lays them neatly into cartons to be sent to the packaging plant.

She's getting mellower, he insists, and sent me this more recent photo to prove it.

For now, it seems unlikely that the code will actually be sent into space.

Please arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent directly from the referees.

Authorities already track many packages sent by groups under investigation.

Remember that photos sent to other phones will be viewed small-another reason to keep the image simple and clean.

Sudden recall of forgotten childhood abuse has sent people to prison.

But this year new research has sent unsettling ripples across these serene waters.

We're getting a few sent out earlyWe'll put them in the shady spot, hooked up to drip irrigation.

Iran says it's sent a domestically-built satellite into orbit.

Please also arrange to have three confidential letters of recommendation sent under separate cover.

The new president has sent the army after the drug mobs.

Follow the expedition's progress through photos sent directly from the mountain.

Participants are sent one or more sampling kits after signing up.

The bird remains sent to the museum are often fragmentary indeed.

Her reaction was so overtly prudent it sent the others into an unprecedented panic.

One is sent to you, and one is sent to help people in developing countries.

Three letters of recommendation should be sent under separate cover.

Still, having the item sent out for drawings to be made and then the part machined from solid metal would have taken weeks.

They put her on a ventilator, and sent test samples to a lab.

And they played with them, all while tracking the data each app sent out.

Maps have determined the outcome of battles, inspired the founding of empires, sent pathbreakers on wild-goose chases.

Dinh did not respond to a letter sent to him in jail following his arrest.

No scores, recordings, or letters of reference should be sent until requested.

When they do set off, though, the data sent back by decades of robot scouts will make them the best informed explorers ever.

The radioactivity sent a geiger counter buzzing from outside the building.

Finally, the desperate editor sent an equally desperate illustrator to search out the writer.

Last month, the department sent a letter to colleges urging them to take steps to protect the student-aid programs.

While hardly catastrophic, this has certainly sent a disappointing message.

Like almost all the others, he had no idea why he had been sent there.

Stirrings on the steppe sent ripples around the globe.

Simple crowdsourcing was his management style, where people scanned or keyed in works they loved and sent them to him.

Doctoral candidates should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent by email or to the mailing address below.

Her father was shot, her mother sent to a labour camp.

Your browser sent a message this server could not understand.

And, if the two snapshots sent in by our readers are any indication.

As the lavender burned, it sent up an aromatic plume of smoke that spiced the air with earthy perfume.

But in a pre-sentencing report sent to the court from probation officers, the officers.

Inquiries may also be sent to the academic departments directly.

People are sent there not on the basis of their crimes, but because they are disruptive or dangerous.

Imagine if every thunderstorm sent you into a desperate state of.

Pondering the mysteries of those microseconds, readers sent some mind-bending questions.

All unsolicited contributions are sent on speculation.

It works the other way, too: any photos and videos you take with your phone are sent back automatically to your.

Each year, admissions officers know that a small percentage of admitted applicants who sent deposits will not show up.

Cars and office equipment for ministries have been sent from abroad.

Each text message, sent or received, may incur a charge as provided in your rate plan.

One of our readers anonymously sent in these photographs.

Sent on a suicide mission, the camera-equipped spacecraft achieves its objectives and goes out in a blaze of glory.

Coaches handed out cash and sent text messages telling players how to spin their stories to the police.

The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism.

The content of the paper is sent to the printing plants using.

Your price proposal will be sent by mail unless your e-mail address is provided.

The timing has sent teachers and textbook makers scrambling.

Whenever researchers thought they had the explanation, the evidence sent them back to square one.

Relieved of their duties, the surviving postal worker camels were soon sent to zoos.

Something about being able to command an ever-increasing fleet against an unseen enemy sent chills down.

Other navies have arrested dozens of suspected pirates and sent them for trial in nearby countries.

Other messages are sent through the priest or priestess, or sometimes come later in dreams.

The discovery of mirror neurons in the brains of macaques about ten years ago sent shockwaves through the neuroscience community.

Generation after generation of paleontologists have proposed different mechanisms that could have sent the.

Plus, since so much data is being sent back and forth, large messages can be sent without causing any alarm.

All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address.

They split red laser photons into entangled pairs and sent the twinned light particles along separate paths.

Taft dominated the caucuses that sent delegates to the state conventions.

Jason sent me a list of contacts as well as his recorded interviews to work from.

Each deluge sent the men sprawling or scurrying for a handhold to keep from being washed overboard.

The message, sent through a cable connected to the.

Explain to students that a space probe is an unpiloted, unmanned device sent to explore space.

Racy, late-night text messages sent by drunks and potheads have inspired a new prime-time sitcom.

Just a few years ago such an onslaught of questions would have sent students scrambling for an atlas and encyclopedia set.

The crisis that has sent food costs spiraling upward around.

In my field, a top journal sent back two reviews of my essay.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural sent·i

[sen-tee] , sents.

a former coin of Estonia, the 100th part of a kroon: replaced the mark in 1928.

Origin:
< Estonian senti (compare Finnish sentti) < Latin centum hundred; see centum¹

verb (used with object)

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.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

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, 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.

13.

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.

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.

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16.

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.

17.

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

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

Related forms

send·a·ble, adjective

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

Antonyms
1. receive.

scend.

Link To sent

Collins

World English Dictionary

sent¹ (sɛnt)

—vb
	send the past tense and past participle of send

sent² (sɛnt)

—n , pl -ti
	a monetary unit of Estonia, worth one hundredth of a kroon

[C19: ultimately from Chinese ch'ien coin]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline

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

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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.

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Slang Dictionary

send (so) definition

tv.
to kill someone. : One shot sent him to glory.
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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sent definition

mod.
alcohol or drug intoxicated. : Two glasses and she's sent.
mod.
carried away by mellow music. : All the musicians were sent. Maybe they were on something.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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