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
1
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
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 2)
send1
/ (sɛnd) /
verbsends, sendingorsent
(tr)to cause or order (a person or thing) to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another placeto 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 pointhis blow sent the champion to the floor
(tr)to bring to a state or conditionthis noise will send me mad
(tr; often foll by forth, out, etc)to cause to issue; emithis cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen
(tr)to cause to happen or comemisery sent by fate
to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses
(tr)slangto move to excitement or rapturethis music really sends me
send someone about his businessto dismiss or get rid of someone
send someone packingto dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
noun
another word for swash (def. 4)
See also send down, sendoff, send up
Derived forms of send
sendable, adjectivesender, noun
Word Origin for send
Old English sendan; related to Old Norse senda, Gothic sandjan, Old High German senten