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Definition of 'send'English
Verb
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-14|author=(Jonathan Freedland)
|volume=189|issue=1|page=18|magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
|title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted
|passage=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.}}
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(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), ,
- Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
* 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
- Baby you send me.
To bring to a certain condition
* 1913 , ,
- “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
- The other two were silent for a few moments.
- “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
* Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
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To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
* Shakespeare
- God send him well!
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
* Sir Walter Scott
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
(nautical) To pitch.
* Totten
- The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Synonyms
* (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mail
Derived terms
* besend
* downsend
* foresend
* forsend
* forthsend
* insend
* missend
* offsend
* onsend
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* outsend
* oversend
* send a message
* send around
* send away
* send back
* send down
* send for
* send in
( rel-mid3)
* send off/send-off
* send on
* send out
* send someone packing
* send someone to the showers
* send to Coventry
* send up/send-up
* upsend
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Noun
( en-noun)
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
- sends and receives
(nautical)
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- The send of the sea. — Longfellow.
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Similar to 'send'sound, sand, synod, snood, shend, snod, scend, sned, snied, snead, smud, shand, semed
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