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. cent.
2. sent\sent\ , v. & n. see:
scent, v. & n. [obs.]sent \sent\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of send, for sendeth.sent \sent\, imp. & p. p. of send.sent caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted [ant: unsent].
3. cent. penny.
4. See Scent, v. & n. obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth. imp. & p. p. of Send. 100 senti equal 1 kroon caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
5. cent, penny, pence. cent, penny.
6. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
7. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
8. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
9. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
10. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
11. To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
12. 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".
13. Sent is the past tense and past participle of send. Past tense and past participle of send. the past tense and past participle of send.