send

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- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.

• enPR: sĕnd, IPA^(key): /sɛnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

   Hyponyms: emit, broadcast, mail, post, transmit

   Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.

   She sends me a letter every month.

   Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.

   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. (transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.

   Synonyms: excite; see also Thesaurus:thrill

   I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.

   • 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183:

     The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.

   • 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me:

     Darling you send me / I know you send me

   • 1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss:

     Baby you send me.

3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
     The other two were silent for a few moments.
     “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.

4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.

   Synonym: call

   Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings vi:32:

     See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

5. (transitive, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.

   Synonyms: bring about, bring to pass, set up

   1. (archaic, of a blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant.
      • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

        God send him well!

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:45:

        That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

      • 1668, Izaak Walton, “Observations of the Otter and Chub”, in The Compleat Angler:

        Let’s be going with all my heart. God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch-Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too.

      • c. 1700s, God Save the King:

        Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King!

      • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

        God send your mission may bring back peace.

      • 1840–1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in The Old Curiosity Shop:

        Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!

   2. (archaic, of a curse or punishment) To inflict; to visit.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:20:

        The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

      • 1884, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans, “Scope and Aims of Hygiene”, in The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene, page 345:

        Vague notions of this kind still widely prevail, and great numbers regard diseases as things that come arbitrarily, or are "sent" by Divine Providence as judgments or punishments for sins.

6. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
7. (climbing, transitive) To climb a route without falling.

   She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.

8. (slang) To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
   • 2024 January 29, @JeffSullivan__, Twitter‎^[1]:

     There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.

   • 2025 January 4, Trevor Rainbolt, 2:10 from the start, in you gotta be kidding‎^[2]:

     Why is my first instinct Spain here? Like if I was playing two seconds I would've just instant-sent Spain on this. But I think it―there's a part of me that thought it could've been Italy. But, I don't really know.

9. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
10. (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
    • 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎^[3]performed by Soph Aspin:

      But if you want beef, it's war. I'll rip you to shreds and send once more […] And you think you can send for Aspin? Sort it, stop gassing.

11. (Singapore, transitive) To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
    • 2001 October 15, MPH Rubin (Judge), quoting Khwan-On Nathaphon, “Public Prosecutor v Khwan-On Nathaphon”, in elitigation.sg‎^[4] (Judgment Text, CC 4/2001, Exhibit P-131 - statement recorded on 15 June 2000), High Court of Singapore, retrieved 12 December 2024:

      […] After closing the door, I shifted to the extreme right and sat directly behind the taxi driver. I told the driver to send me to Pasir Ris by saying "Pasir Ris Dr 12", bus stop" […]

send (plural sends)

1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
   • 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71:

     In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]

2. (graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) 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.

3. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.
   • 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate:

     thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west

   • 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     the send of the sea

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.

4. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
5. (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
   • 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎^[5]performed by Soph Aspin:

     Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.

6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

• (graphical user interface): Send

• dens, ends, ENDS, Neds, neds, Ends, sned, NDEs

• senë (Gheg) ^[1]

From Proto-Albanian *tsjam tam, from Proto-Indo-European *kiom tom, a sequence of two pronouns in neuter of which the first is related to 'se'.^[2] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *tśe enta, literally 'this being', the first element from *kwe- (“how, what”), or *k̂(e) (“this”), while the second one being a gerundive or a participle of a disused verb, close to Latin -ēns (participal ending), Medieval Latin ens (“being”) (hence Italian ente (“entity, body, being”)), and Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn) (present participle).

send m

1. thing, object

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[6], 1980
• “send”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “send”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[7]

• 腥 (sen¹), (text messaging) sd

From English send.

send

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to send (in electronic means)

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/, [sɛnˀ]

send

1. imperative of sende

send

1. (Early Scots) alternative form of sonde

send

1. (Northern or Late Middle English) alternative form of senden

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

send

1. to care (to be concerned about)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Goat, dog, and Malu”, in Storybooks African Languages‎^[8]:

     Cow no send if moto dey come or not.

     Cow does not care if a car is coming or not.

send

1. imperative of sende

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

1. past participle of senda and sende

send

1. imperative of senda and sende

• IPA^(key): /send/

send

1. singular imperative of sendan

send

1. inflection of senda:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

send

1. second-person singular active imperative of senda