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Definitions for Send

[1] 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 followed 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 . to transmit (a signal). 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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[20] scend.
[21] to heave in a swell.
[22] to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.
[23] the heaving motion of a vessel.
[24] the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.
[25] (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
[26] (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
[27] (tr) to direct or cause to go to a place or point his blow sent the champion to the floor
[28] (tr) to bring to a state or condition this noise will send me mad
[29] (tr; often foll by forth, out, etc ) to cause to issue; emit his cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen
[30] (tr) to cause to happen or come misery sent by fate
[31] to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses
[32] (tr) slang to move to excitement or rapture this music really sends me
[33] send someone about his business to dismiss or get rid of someone
[34] send someone packing to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
[35] another word for swash (def. 4)
[36] a variant spelling of scend
[37] (of a vessel) to surge upwards in a heavy sea
[38] the upward heaving of a vessel pitching
[39] the forward lift given a vessel by the sea

Words related to Send

shoot, express, relay, grant, post, drop, deliver, dispatch, fire, address, forward, commit, ship, issue, assign, circulate, move, convey, propel, televise

Words nearby Send

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

Origin of Send

cend1615–25; cf. send2; perhaps aphetic variant of ascend, descend

Words that may be confused with Send

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, scendscend, send

Other words from Send

send·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Send

cendC17: perhaps from descend or ascend

Synonyms for Send

address, assign, circulate, commit, deliver, dispatch, drop, express, fire, forward, grant, issue, post, relay, ship, shoot, accelerate, advance, broadcast, cast, commission, communicate, consign, convey, delegate, detail, direct, emit, expedite, fling, freight, hasten, hurl, impart, mail, propel, radiate, remit, route, televise, troll, wire, get under way, give off, hurry off, let fly, put out, rush off