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Definitions for Sendoff

[1] a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
[2] a start given to a person or thing.
[3] to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
[4] to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.
[5] to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia.
[6] 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.
[7] to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through ): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.
[8] to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.
[9] Electricity . to transmit (a signal). to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.
[10] Slang . to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.
[11] to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
[12] Electricity . to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.
[13] send down , British . to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
[14] send for , to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
[15] 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.
[16] send in , to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.
[17] send off , to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, new career, etc
[21] a start, esp an auspicious one, to a venture
[22] to cause to depart; despatch
[23] sport (of the referee) to dismiss (a player) from the field of play for some offence
[24] informal to give a sendoff to
[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

Words related to Sendoff

send-offadieu, goodbye, valediction, salutation, parting, ciao, cheerio, adios, leave-taking, bye-bye, farewell, Godspeed, send-off, ta-ta

Words nearby Sendoff

send-offsend out, send round, send someone about his or her business, send someone packing, send up, send-off, send-up, sendai, sendai virus, sendak, sendal

Origin of Sendoff

1before 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

Words that may be confused with Sendoff

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

Other words from Sendoff

send·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Sendoff

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

Synonyms for Sendoff

Godspeed, adieu, adios, bye-bye, cheerio, farewell, gluckliche Reise, goodbye, happy landing, pleasant journey, send-off, tsetchem leshalom