send Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to go somewhere
    direct.
    • 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 to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
    send out.
    • He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept
  3. verb cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
    mail; post.
    • send me your latest results
    • I'll mail you the paper when it's written
  4. verb transport commercially
    ship; transport.
  5. verb assign to a station
    post; station; place.
  6. verb transfer
    send off; get off.
    • The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
  7. verb cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
    commit; charge; institutionalize; institutionalise.
    • After the second episode, she had to be committed
    • he was committed to prison
  8. verb broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
    broadcast; beam; transmit; air.
    • We cannot air this X-rated song

WordNet

Send transitive verb
Etymology
AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. si, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. st. Cf. Sense.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Sent ; present participle & verbal noun Sending
Definitions
  1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
    I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. xxiii. 21.
    I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John viii. 42.
    Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. Swift.
  2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
    He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. Esther viii. 10.
    O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. Ps. xliii. 3.
  3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
  4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!" Shak.
    The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. Deut. xxviii. 20.
    And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt. v. 45.
    God send your mission may bring back peace. Sir W. Scott.
Send intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
    See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings vi. 32.
  2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten.
Send noun
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. Written also scend. W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". Longfellow.

Webster 1913