Send Definition

sĕnd

sending, sends, sent

verb

sending, sends, sent

To send a message, messenger, emissary, etc.

To send for help.

Webster's New World

To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination.

Send goods by plane.

American Heritage

To cause to go or be carried; dispatch, convey, or transmit.

Webster's New World

To dispatch, as by a communications medium.

Send a message by radio.

American Heritage

To ask, direct, or command to go.

Send the boy home.

Webster's New World

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receive
displease

noun

sends

The driving motion of a wave or the sea.

Webster's New World

Scend.

Webster's New World

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.

Sends and receives.

Wiktionary

(nautical) Alternative form of scend.

The send of the sea. "” Longfellow.

Wiktionary

idiom

send flying

To cause to be knocked or scattered about with force:
a blow to the table that sent the dishes flying.

American Heritage

send packing

To dismiss (someone) abruptly.

American Heritage

send around

to put into circulation

Webster's New World

send away

to dispatch or banish

Webster's New World

send down

to suspend or expel from a university

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Send

send flying
send packing
send around
send away
send down
send flying
send for
send forth
send in
send off
send out
send out for
send up

Origin of Send

From Middle English senden (“to send"), from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go"), from Proto-Germanic *sandijanÄ… (“to cause to go"), from *sinþanÄ… (“to go, journey"), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to walk, travel"). Cognate with Dutch zenden (“to send"), Norwegian and Danish sende (“to send"), German senden (“to send"), Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message"), Albanian endem (“I roam around, wander").

From Wiktionary
Middle English senden from Old English sendan sent- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition