Definition of "send"

send

/sɛnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended
1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
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  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.
  2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
2. (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
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  The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
  1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183
  Darling you send me / I know you send me
  1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me
  Baby you send me.
  1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
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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.
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
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  See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Kings vi:32
5. (transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
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  God send him well!
  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, [Act I, scene i]
  The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy 28:20
  God send your mission may bring back peace.
  1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
6. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
7. (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
8. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care.
9. (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
  Quotations
  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.
  2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎performed by Soph Aspin
10. (slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge
noun
plural sends
1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71
2. (graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) 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.
3. (nautical) Alternative form of scend
  Quotations
  thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west
  1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate
  the send of the sea
  1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields
  The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
4. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
5. (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
  Quotations
  Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.
  2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎performed by Soph Aspin
6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

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