send

[ send ]

/ sɛnd /

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.

Idioms for send

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.

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ANTONYMS FOR send

1 receive.

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OTHER WORDS FROM send

send·a·ble, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH send

scend send

Words nearby send

senator, senatorial, senatorial courtesy, senatorial district, senatus consultum, send, send away, send down, send flying, send for, send in

Definition for send (2 of 3)

send ²

[ send ]

/ sɛnd /

Nautical

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

scend.

Definition for send (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

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH scend

scend send

Example sentences from the Web for send

And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.

Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting |Ruben Navarrette Jr. |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
If nobody on the outside will send Teresa money, should she learn a prison hustle?

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Johnson knew that the proposals he was going to send to the Hill would be divisive.

Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society |Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
After all, there is only one sure-fire message that I can send by putting a Coexist sticker on the back of my car.

COEXIST’s Bonehead Bumper-Sticker Politics |Michael Schulson |December 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

But the main message they send is one of membership in a certain cultural group.

COEXIST’s Bonehead Bumper-Sticker Politics |Michael Schulson |December 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In time of war the Athenians send to their foes safe conducts to induce them to assist at the celebration.

Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines |John Claudius Pitrat
He stopped to send his officer to the Arcade; but the National Guard had been withdrawn from there, too.

The Countess of Charny |Alexandre Dumas (pere)
Send to Harold mildly, and gently remind him of oath and of relics—of treaty and pledge.

Harold, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
And how could I send you alone, with such an opportunity to be taken care of!

Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 |Elizabeth Sheppard
Mrs. Dickens tells me that you have only borrowed the first number of "Little Dorrit," and are going to send it back.

The Letters of Charles Dickens |Charles Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for send (1 of 3)

send ¹

/ (sɛnd) /

verb sends, sending or sent

(tr) to cause or order (a person or thing) to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place to 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 point his blow sent the champion to the floor

(tr) to bring to a state or condition this noise will send me mad

(tr; often foll by forth, out, etc) to cause to issue; emit his cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen

(tr) to cause to happen or come misery sent by fate

to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses

(tr) slang to move to excitement or rapture this 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)

Derived forms of send

sendable, adjective sender, noun

Word Origin for send

Old English sendan; related to Old Norse senda, Gothic sandjan, Old High German senten

British Dictionary definitions for send (2 of 3)

send ²

/ (sɛnd) /

verb, noun sends, sending or sent

a variant spelling of scend

British Dictionary definitions for send (3 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

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send

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

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

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Origin of send

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Definition for send (2 of 3)

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

Definition for send (3 of 3)

or send

verb (used without object) (of a vessel)

noun

Origin of scend

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH scend

Example sentences from the Web for send

British Dictionary definitions for send (1 of 3)

verb sends, sending or sent

noun

Derived forms of send

Word Origin for send

British Dictionary definitions for send (2 of 3)

verb, noun sends, sending or sent

British Dictionary definitions for send (3 of 3)

send

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

noun

Word Origin for scend

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send

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

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

Verb Phrases

Idioms for send

Origin of send

SYNONYMS FOR send

ANTONYMS FOR send

OTHER WORDS FROM send

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Definition for send (2 of 3)

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

Definition for send (3 of 3)

or send

verb (used without object) (of a vessel)

noun

Origin of scend

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH scend

Words related to send

Example sentences from the Web for send

British Dictionary definitions for send (1 of 3)

verb sends, sending or sent

noun

Derived forms of send

Word Origin for send

British Dictionary definitions for send (2 of 3)

verb, noun sends, sending or sent

British Dictionary definitions for send (3 of 3)

send

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

noun

Word Origin for scend