send

1 cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: direct]

2 to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept" [syn: send out]

3 cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail, post]

4 transport commercially [syn: transport, ship]

5 assign to a station [syn: station, post, base, place]

6 transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: get off, send off]

7 cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, charge]

8 broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, broadcast, beam, transmit] [also: sent]

English

Etymology

sendan

Pronunciation

• /ˈsend/

• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

1. To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.

   To send a message.

   To send a letter.

2. 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

Synonyms

• i-c make something go somewhere emit, broadcast, mail

Derived terms

• send off

Translations

Anagrams

• dens
• ends

Albanian

Noun

send

1. thing

Send may be:

• Send, Surrey, England
• HMP Send, the women's prison at Send
• SEND protocol
• Send (album), a 2003 album by the rock band Wire
• Send (audio), an output from an audio mixer which is usually designed to carry a given channel to an effects or monitor device
• Send! (Magazine) (a Christian missionary magazine by Gospel for Asia)

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