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What's The Definition Of Send?
[v] broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
[v] cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [v] transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [v] assign to a station [v] 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." [v] transport commercially [v] 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" [v] cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" Synonyms | Synonyms for Send: air | base | beam | broadcast | charge | commit | direct | get off | institutionalise | institutionalize | mail | place | post | post | send off | send out | ship | station | transmit | transport Related Terms | Find terms related to Send: See Also | airmail | airt | bare | barge | blow | can | cast | channel | channelise | channelize | contrive | despatch | dismiss | dispatch | displace | displace | divert | drop | express | express-mail | fire | force out | fort | forward | garrison | get off | give notice | give the axe | hospitalise | hospitalize | interrogate | locate | mail | mail out | move | move | project | publicise | publicize | railroad | rebroadcast | redirect | refer | register | remand | remit | rerun | route | sack | satellite | send away | send back | send in | send off | send on | send packing | site | sportscast | telecast | televise | terminate | throw | transfer | transfer | transfer | transmit | transport | turn Send In Webster's Dictionary \Send\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sent}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sending}.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G.
senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. s["a]nda, Dan. sende,
Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going),
gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[=i]?, Icel. sinni
a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t.
Cf. {Sense}.]
1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission
or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. --Jer.
xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I
of myself, but he sent me. --John viii.
42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer
than the message requires. --Swift.
2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to
procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to
send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
--Esther viii.
10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
--Ps. xliii.
3.
3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send
a ball, an arrow, or the like.
4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to
grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
``God send him well!'' --Shak.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and
rebuke. --Deut.
xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
--Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back peace. --Sir W.
Scott.
\Send\, v. i. 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? --2 Kings vi. 32. 2. (Naut.) 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. \Send\, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also {scend}.] --W. C. Russell. ``The send of the sea''. --Longfellow. |
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