send
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnd
ipa: /sɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: sends
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form: sended
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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- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
Senses: examples: text: Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
text: She sends me a letter every month.
text: Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
examples: text: I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
text: The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
ref: 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183:
text: Darling you send me / I know you send me
ref: 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me:
text: Baby you send me.
ref: 1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss:
synonyms: word: excite
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
examples: text: “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.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
examples: text: Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
text: See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings vi:32:
synonyms: call
glosses: To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
raw_tags: with for
examples: text: God send him well!
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:45:
text: 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.
ref: 1668, Izaak Walton, “Observations of the Otter and Chub”, in The Compleat Angler:
text: Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King!
ref: c. 1700s, God Save the King:
text: God send your mission may bring back peace.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!
ref: 1840–1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
synonyms: bring about
bring to pass
set up
glosses: To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
To bestow; to grant.
raw_tags: of a blessing or reward
followed by a dependent proposition
examples: text: The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:20:
text: 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.
ref: 1884, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans, “Scope and Aims of Hygiene”, in The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene, page 345:
synonyms: bring about
bring to pass
set up
glosses: To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
To inflict; to visit.
raw_tags: of a curse or punishment
followed by a dependent proposition
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pitch.
examples: text: She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb a route without falling.
examples: text: There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.
ref: 2024 January 29, @JeffSullivan__, Twitter:
text: 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.
ref: 2025 January 4, Trevor Rainbolt, 2:10 from the start, in you gotta be kidding:
glosses: To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
glosses: To care.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:
glosses: To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
examples: text: […] 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" […]
ref: 2001 October 15, MPH Rubin (Judge), quoting Khwan-On Nathaphon, “Public Prosecutor v Khwan-On Nathaphon”, in elitigation.sg (Judgment Text, CC 4/2001, Exhibit P-131 - statement recorded on 15 June 2000), High Court of Singapore, retrieved 12 Dec 2024:
glosses: To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
Derived terms: besend
downsend
foresend
forsend
forthsend
full send
insend
missend
offsend
onsend
outsend
oversend
resend
send about one's business
send a boy to do a man's job
send a message
send around
send a shiver down someone's spine
send away
send away for
send back
send below
send bush
send down
send down for
send for
send for a toss
send forth
send her down Hughie
send in
send it
send it up the flagpole and see who salutes
send off
send-off
send on
send one's apologies
send out
send out for
send shivers down someone's spine
send someone packing
send someone to the showers
send the flood
send to Coventry
send to dorse
send to the glue factory
send to the scaffold
send-up
send up
send word
undersend
upsend