Send
[send] or [sɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) transfer; 'The spy sent the classified information off to Russia'.
(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'.
(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'.
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
(v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
(v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
(v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
(v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
(n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Throw, hurl, cast, fling, impel, emit, project, toss, launch, lance, jaculate.[2]. Despatch, delegate, depute, send forth, send out.[3]. Transmit, forward.[4]. Give, bestow, grant, confer.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Despatch, transmit, impel, cast, bestow, grant
ANT:Detain, withhold, arrest, withdraw, deny, recal
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Definition
v.t. to cause to go: to cause to be conveyed: to despatch: to forward: to compel: to throw: to hurl: to authorise: to grant: to drive: to dismiss: to commission: to diffuse: to bestow.—v.i. to despatch a message or messenger: (naut.) to pitch into the trough of the sea:—pa.t. and pa.p. sent.—n. (Scot.) a messenger esp. one sent for the bride: a present: the impulse of a wave on a ship.—ns. Sen′der one who sends: (teleg.) the instrument by which a message is transmitted; Sen′ding despatching: pitching bodily into the trough of the sea; Send′-off a start as on a journey.—Send for to require by message to come or be brought; Send forth or out to give put or bring forth; Send to Coventry to cut: to exclude from society.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- He thought of Miss Ophelia's letter to his Kentucky friends, and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Those who loved reading were obliged to send for their books from England: the members of the Junto had each a few. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He immediately signalled to the cruiser to send water, medicine, and provisions, and another boat made the perilous trip to the Arrow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Why should she send for me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I can't send a bellman about, to cry aloud and proclaim in the streets what you are pleased to call my heroism. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Send me a large cloak: a good warm one: for it is bitter cold. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One of these papers was sent to Major Dobbin,--Regt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Part of the wool of Spain is manufactured in Great Britain, and some part of that cloth is afterwards sent back to Spain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There was no harm in sending him there you know; for I can easily change my mind when he comes back, if anything which I like better occurs. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This was done by sending a large force around our right, by the way of Dallas, to reach the rear of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It will be seen, therefore, that this method of duplexing is practiced, not by varying the strength or polarity, but by sending TWO KINDS OF CURRENT over the wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are always sending for her to come and try something on. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I alighted at Perdita's ancient abode, her cottage; and, sending forward the carriage, determined to walk across the park to the castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The operator next sends the letter M by depressing the appropriate key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He shall not have any medicine but that which Mr. Pestler sends for him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And yet--and yet--she sends a look in that direction as if it were her heart's desire to have that figure moved out of the way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A Cistertian Prior sends a letter to a soldier of the Temple, and can find no more fitting messenger than an unbelieving Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The first black foot that is planted upon this platform sends my dagger into Issus' heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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