send
Forms
- present (v1)
- send
- past (v2)
- sent
- past participle (v3)
- sent
- present participle
- sending
- 3rd person singular
- sends
- Plural
- sends
Definitions
1.To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
- She sends me a letter every month.
- Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
- Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.
2.To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.(slang)
- I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
- The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
3.To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
- In news that has absolutely sent me this spooky season, the owners of the literal Amityville Horror House (yep, *that* one with all the murders) have taken it upon themselves to decorate for Halloween.
4.To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
- I told them to send me another ticket.
- Please send this document before the end of the month.
1.An operation in which data is transmitted.
2.Alternative form of scend.
- The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
3.A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
4.An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
- Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #382
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye-ti (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.