send
/sɛnd/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms sends sending sent sended sendest sentest sendeth
- verb (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone). “Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.”
- verb (transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill. “I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.”
- verb (transitive, Internet slang) To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
- verb (transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
- verb (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing. “Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.”
- verb (archaic, of a blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant.
- verb (archaic, of a curse or punishment) To inflict; to visit.
- verb (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
- noun (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
- noun (graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message. “Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.”
- noun (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
- noun (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
- noun (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- proper noun A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, south-east of Woking (OS grid ref TQ0255).
Synonyms
excite animate awaken electrify enflame enkindle enthrill exagitate exhilarate exsuscitate fillip fire fire the blood galvanize gin up ignite inflame intoxicate kindle quicken direct send out mail post transport ship station place get off send off
Etymology
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye-ti (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
- verb To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
- verb To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
- verb To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten. To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Etymology [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. si, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s. Cf. Sense.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “send”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details