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send
1[ send ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause, permit, or enable to go:
to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
Antonyms:
- to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination:
to send a letter.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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.
Synonyms: , , ,
- 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)
- to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
- Electricity. to transmit a signal:
The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.
verb phrase
- 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.
- to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination:
Send in your contest entries to this station.
- to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss:
His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
- 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.
- to request the coming or delivery of; summon:
If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
- British. to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
- 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.
send
2[ send ]
verb (used without object)
send
1/ ²õÉ›²Ô»å /
verb
- 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
- when intr, foll byfor;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 point
his blow sent the champion to the floor
- tr to bring to a state or condition
this noise will send me mad
- tr; often foll by forth, out, etc to cause to issue; emit
his cooking sent forth a lovely smell from the kitchen
- tr to cause to happen or come
misery sent by fate
- to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses
- slang.tr to move to excitement or rapture
this 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
send
2/ ²õÉ›²Ô»å /
verb
- a variant spelling of scend
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ±ð²Ô»å±ð°ù, noun
- ˈ²õ±ð²Ô»å²¹²ú±ô±ð, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ±ð²Ô»åa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of send1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of send1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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:
˜yÐÄvlog was sent round about his illness.
Example Sentences
Altman shared his anime cricketer avatar on X on Thursday, sending Indian social media users into a tizzy.
That would mean an Etihad Stadium send off in City's final home game against Bournemouth - scheduled for 18 May, but to be moved if Guardiola's side are in the FA Cup final that weekend.
The order means those companies may have to pay taxes for the first time on the clothes they often send directly to customers.
The documents also reveal details of Andrew's "communication channel" with China's President Xi Jinping - including sending an annual birthday letter - and how MI5 intervened to warn against Andrew having contact with the alleged spy.
Such a move would be a further reversal of pandemic-era policies that saw some studios adopting dramatically shorter windows before sending films to streaming platforms.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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