Pronunciations (2)
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/sɛnd/
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sɛnd
Verb
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
Usage- Ditransitive
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I will send you an email.
Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
She sends me a letter every month.
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Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.
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.
To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
Usage- Slang
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I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
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Darling you send me / I know you send me
Baby you send me.
To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
Usage- Internet
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In news that has absolutely sent me this spooky season, the owners of the literal Amityville Horror House (yep, *that* one with all the murders) have taken it upon themselves to decorate for Halloween.
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To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
Usage- Transitive
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“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 find and return with a specified person or thing.
Usage- Intransitive
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- with for
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Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about. To bestow; to grant.
Usage- Archaic
- sometimes
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- of a blessing or reward
- followed by a dependent proposition
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God send him well!
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That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Let’s be going with all my heart. God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch-Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too.
Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King!
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God send your mission may bring back peace.
Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!
To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about. To inflict; to visit.
Usage- Archaic
- sometimes
- Transitive
- of a curse or punishment
- followed by a dependent proposition
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The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
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Vague notions of this kind still widely prevail, and great numbers regard diseases as things that come arbitrarily, or are "sent" by Divine Providence as judgments or punishments for sins.
To pitch.
Usage- Intransitive
To climb a route without falling.
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She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
Usage- Slang
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There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.
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Why is my first instinct Spain here? Like if I was playing two seconds I would've just instant-sent Spain on this. But I think it―there's a part of me that thought it could've been Italy. But, I don't really know.
To care.
Usage- Nigeria
- Intransitive
- Slang
To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
Usage- UK usage
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But if you want beef, it's war. I'll rip you to shreds and send once more[…]And you think you can send for Aspin? Sort it, stop gassing.
To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
Usage- Singapore
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[…] After closing the door, I shifted to the extreme right and sat directly behind the taxi driver. I told the driver to send me to Pasir Ris by saying "Pasir Ris Dr 12", bus stop" […]
Noun
An operation in which data is transmitted.
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In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
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.
Usage- capitalized
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Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
Usage- Scotland
A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
Usage- UK usage
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Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.
A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
Verb
cause to go somewhere
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The explosion sent the car flying in the air
She sent her children to camp
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He directed all his energies into his dissertation
to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
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He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept
cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
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send me your latest results
I'll mail you the paper when it's written
transport commercially
assign to a station
transfer
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The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
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After the second episode, she had to be committed
he was committed to prison
broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
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We cannot air this X-rated song