Dictionary
send
Pronunciation: (send), [key]
—v., sent, send•ing.
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v.t.
1. to cause, permit, or enable to go:
to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
2. to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination:
to send a letter.
3. to order, direct, compel, or force to go:
The president sent troops to Asia.
4. to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction:
to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling.
5. to emit, discharge, or utter (usually fol. by
off, out, or
through):
The lion sent a roar through the jungle.
6. to cause to occur or befall:
The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.
7. Elect.
a. to transmit (a signal).
b. to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.
8. Slang.to delight or excite:
Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.
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v.i.
1. to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
2. Elect.to transmit a signal:
The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.
3. send down, Brit.to expel, esp. from Oxford or Cambridge.
4. send for,to request the coming or delivery of; summon:
If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
5. send forth,
a. to produce; bear; yield:
plants sending forth new leaves.
b. to dispatch out of a country as an export.
c. to issue, as a publication:
They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.
d. to emit or discharge:
The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.
6. send in,to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination:
Send in your contest entries to this station.
7. send off,to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss:
His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
8. send out,
a. to distribute; issue.
b. to send on the way; dispatch:
They sent out their final shipment last week.
c. to order delivery:
We sent out for coffee.
9. send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace:
The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.
10. send round,to circulate or dispatch widely:
Word was sent round about his illness.
11. send up,
a. to release or cause to go upward; let out.
b. Informal.to sentence or send to prison:
He was convicted and sent up for life.
c. to expose the flaws or foibles of through parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, or other forms of satire:
The new movie sends up merchants who commercialize Christmas. send
Pronunciation: (send), [key]—
v.i., sent, send•ing,
—n.
Naut.
scend.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
