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Definition of 'send'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) send
to cause or enable to go:
to send a messenger.

2.  send
to cause to be conveyed to a destination:
to send a letter.

3.  send
to order or request to go:
sending troops to battle.

4.  send
to propel or drive:
to send a punch to the jaw.

5.  send
to emit or utter:
The lion sent a roar through the jungle.

6.  send
to cause to occur.

7.  send
to transmit (a signal).

8.  send
to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.

9.  send
Slang. to delight; excite.

10. (v.i.) send
to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.

11.  send
Brit. to expel from a university.

12.  send
send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon:
to send for a doctor.

13.  send
send forth,

14.  send
to produce, emit, discharge, or cause to emerge.

15.  send
send in, to mail or otherwise dispatch to an authorized point of collection:
to send in one's taxes.

16.  send
send out,

17.  send
to order delivery:
We sent out for coffee.

18.  send
send up,

19.  send
to cause to rise up.

20.  send
to ridicule, as through parody or burlesque.

Definition of 'send'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) send, direct
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"

2. (verb) send, send out
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"

3. (verb) mail, post, send
cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
"send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

4. (verb) transport, send, ship
transport commercially

5. (verb) station, post, send, place
assign to a station

6. (verb) send, get off, send off
transfer
"The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

7. (verb) commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
"After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

8. (verb) air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit
broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
"We cannot air this X-rated song"

Definition of 'send'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) send
to make sth go or be delivered somewhere
I sent him a letter/email/package.; Send your answers to the address below.

2. send
to arrange for or tell sb to go somewhere
They sent her home from school.; He was sent to live with his grandparents.

3. send
to tell sb to give sb else a message
Send your parents my best wishes.; Danny sends his love.

Definition of 'send'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) send
the impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily

2. (verb) send
to cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger

3. (verb) send
to give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message

4. (verb) send
to emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like

5. (verb) send
to cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition

6. (verb) send
to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand

7. (verb) send
to pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts

Translation of 'send'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to cause or order to go or be taken The teacher sent the disobedient boy to the headmaster; She sent me this book.
Afrikaans: stuur	Arabic: يُرْسِل	Bulgarian: пращам
Brazilian: mandar	Czech: poslat	German: schicken
Danish: sende	Greek: στέλνω	Spanish: mandar, enviar
Estonian: saatma	Farsi: فرستادن	Finnish: lähettää
French: envoyer	Hebrew: לִשלוֹחַ	Hindi: भेजना
Croatian: slati, poslatišto	Hungarian: (el)küld	Indonesian: mengirimkan
Icelandic: senda	Italian: mandare, inviare	Japanese: 送る
Korean: 보내다	Lithuanian: siųsti	Latvian: sūtīt
Malay: menghantar	Dutch: sturen	Norwegian: sende
Polish: wysyłać, przysyłać	Persian: فرستادن	Pashto: ليږل، استول، خبرول، تيتول
Portuguese: mandar	Romanian: a trimite	Russian: посылать, отправлять
Slovak: poslať	Slovenian: poslati	Serbian: poslati
Swedish: skicka, sända	Thai: สั่ง	Turkish: yollamak, göndermek
Taiwanese: 派遣，叫(某人)去，寄，送	Ukrainian: посилати; відсилати	Urdu: بھیجنا، ارسال کرنا
Vietnamese: gửi; phái	Chinese: 送，传，寄，派遣
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