Etymology : Middle English, from Old English sendan; akin to Old High German sendan to send, Old English sith road, journey, Old Irish sét path, way
Pronunciation : send
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. dispatch, cause to go to a destination; propel, launch; dismiss, drive away; excite; please, delight (Slang); generate, produce; transmit electronically. send\send\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. sent ; p. pr. & vb. n. sending.] [as. sendan; akin to os. sendian, d. zenden, g. senden, ohg. senten, icel. senda, sw. s?nda, dan. sende, goth. sandjan, and to goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, ohg. sind journey, as. sī , icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. w. hynt a way, journey, oir. s t. cf. sense.].
2. to cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. i have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. xxiii.
3. i proceeded forth and came from god; neither came i of myself, but he sent me.
4. servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
5. to give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message. he sent letters by posts on horseback. er viii.
6. o send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. xliii.
7. 3. to emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
8. to cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "god send him well!" the lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. xxviii.
9. and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. v.
10. god send your mission may bring back peace. w. scott.send \send\ , v. i.
11. to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. see:
ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? --2 kings vi.
12. 2. (naut.) to pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
13. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
14. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
15. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
16. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
17. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
18. To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
19. The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" 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" 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".
20. 1. When you send someone something, you arrange for it to be taken and delivered to them, for example by post. Myra Cunningham sent me a note thanking me for dinner I sent a copy to the minister for transport He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card Sir Denis took one look and sent it back More than half a million sheep are sent from Britain to Europe for slaughter every year.
21. If you send someone somewhere, you tell them to go there. Inspector Banbury came up to see:
her, but she sent him away the government's decision to send troops to the region I suggested that he rest, and sent him for an X-ray Reinforcements were being sent from the neighbouring region..
22. If you send someone to an institution such as a school or a prison, you arrange for them to stay there for a period of time. It's his parents' choice to send him to a boarding school, rather than a convenient day school.
23. To send a signal means to cause it to go to a place by means of radio waves or electricity. The transmitters will send a signal automatically to a local base station in 1989, after a 12-year journey to Neptune, the space probe Voyager sent back pictures of Triton, its moon.
24. If something sends things or people in a particular direction, it causes them to move in that direction. The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway The slight back and forth motion sent a pounding surge of pain into his skull.
25. To send someone or something into a particular state means to cause them to go into or be in that state. My attempt to fix it sent Lawrence into fits of laughter. before civil war and famine sent the country plunging into anarchy An obsessive search for our inner selves, far from saving the world, could send us all mad.
26. to send someone to Coventry: see:
Coventry to send someone packing: see pack. Variant of scend.
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