- to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.
- to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia.
- 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.
- to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.
- to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.
- Electricity.
- to transmit (a signal).
- to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.
- to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.
- to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
- to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.
- to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
- to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.
- send forth,
- to produce; bear; yield: plants sending forth new leaves.
- to dispatch out of a country as an export.
- to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.
- to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.
- to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.
- to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
- send out,
- to distribute; issue.
- to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week.
- to order delivery: We sent out for coffee.
- send up,
- to release or cause to go upward; let out.
- to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life.
- 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.
- to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.
- to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness.
- to cause or order (a person or thing) to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
- to dispatch a request or command (for something or to do something)
- to direct or cause to go to a place or point
- to bring to a state or condition
- to cause to issue; emit
- to cause to happen or come
- to transmit (a message) by radio, esp in the form of pulses
- to move to excitement or rapture
- to dismiss or get rid of someone
- to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
- another word for swash (def. 4)
- a variant spelling of scend
