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Send

Send Meaning & Definition
Send Definition And Meaning

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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