Send
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɛnd/
- Rhymes: -ɛnd
Origin
From Middle English senden ("to send"), from Old English sendan ("to send, cause to go"), from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną ("to cause to go"), from *sinþaną ("to go, journey"), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- ("to walk, travel"). Cognate with Dutch zenden ("to send"), Norwegian and Danish sende ("to send"), German senden ("to send"), Old English sand, sond ("a sending, mission, message"), Albanian endem ("I roam around, wander").
Full definition of send
Verb
- (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
- 2013-06-14, Jonathan Freedland, Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.to send a message, or a letter
- (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
- 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me,Darling you send me
I know you send me - 1991, P.M. Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss",Baby you send me.
- To bring to a certain condition
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, ,“I suppose,†blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.â€The other two were silent for a few moments.“But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,†said Paul.
- (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
- Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- ShakespeareGod send him well!
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- Sir Walter ScottGod send your mission may bring back peace.
- (nautical) To pitch.
- TottenThe ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.