send
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
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 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.
Inflected forms:
form: sends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sended
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: send
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: send
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: send
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sendest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sentest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sendeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: send
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: send
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: send
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: sending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
She sends me a letter every month.
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.
gloss: To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
Darling you send me / I know you send me
Baby you send me.
gloss: To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: 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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gloss: To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “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.
gloss: To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: 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?
gloss: To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
sometimes
transitive
examples: God send him well!
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!
God send your mission may bring back peace.
Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!
gloss: To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
sometimes
transitive
examples: The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
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.
gloss: To pitch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To climb a route without falling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
gloss: To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.
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.
gloss: To care.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
intransitive
slang
gloss: To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
transitive
examples: […] 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" […]
Derived words: autosend
besend
downsend
foresend
forsend
forthsend
full send
GiveSendGo
insend
instasend
missend
offsend
onsend
outsend
oversend
resend
sendable
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
sendee
sender
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
sendling
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
unsend
upsend
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