'Send' definitions:

Definition of 'send'

From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: send, direct]
verb
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" [syn: send, send out]
verb
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail, post, send]
verb
Transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship]
verb
Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]
verb
Transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: send, get off, send off]
verb
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge]
verb
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit]

Definition of 'Send'

From: GCIDE
  • Send \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[aum]nda, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[imac]?, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. --Jer. xxiii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. --John viii. 42. [1913 Webster]
  • Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. --Esther viii. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. --Ps. xliii. 3. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. --Deut. xxviii. 20. [1913 Webster]
  • And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. --Matt. v. 45. [1913 Webster]
  • God send your mission may bring back peace. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Send'

From: GCIDE
  • Send \Send\, v. i.
  • 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. [1913 Webster]
  • See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? --2 Kings vi. 32. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
  • To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Send'

From: GCIDE
  • Send \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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'send'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Send'