send
/send/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To cause something to go or be taken to a place or person: The primary meaning involves causing an object, message, or person to move from one location to another.
- To cause something to happen or be in a particular state: To cause a person or thing to move, go, or react in a specified way.
- To transmit a signal or broadcast: To cause electronic signals, radio waves, or television programs to be transmitted.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- Please send the package to my office. (Cause an object to go to a place.)
- The news sent shockwaves through the community. (Caused a reaction or state.)
- The station will send the broadcast at 8 PM. (Transmit a signal.)
Advanced Usage
- "to send word": to communicate a message.
- He sent word that he would be late.
- "to send for": to request that someone or something come.
- We had to send for a doctor.
- "to send off": to dispatch something or someone; to say goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- I need to send off this letter.
- A crowd gathered to send off the team.
Variants and Related Words
- Sender (n): A person or thing that sends something.
- The sender's address was on the envelope.
- Sending (n): The action of causing something to go or be taken somewhere.
- The sending of the email was delayed.
Synonyms
- Dispatch: To send off to a destination or for a purpose (often with speed or formality).
- Transmit: To pass or convey something from one person or place to another, especially signals or information.
- Forward: To send a letter or package on to a further destination.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Send away: To dismiss or order someone to leave; to order goods by mail.
- He sent the salesman away.
- I sent away for a catalog.
- Send back: To return something to its place of origin.
- The restaurant sent back the undercooked steak.
- Send out: To distribute or dispatch things from a central point; to emit.
- The company sends out newsletters monthly.
- The flowers send out a lovely scent.
Related Idioms
- Send someone packing: To dismiss someone abruptly or forcefully.
- After the argument, the boss sent him packing.
- Send shivers down someone's spine: To cause a sudden feeling of fear or excitement.
- The ghost story sent shivers down my spine.
- Send to Coventry: To refuse to associate with or speak to someone as a form of punishment.
- After he betrayed the team, they sent him to Coventry.
Verb
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- We cannot air this X-rated song
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- After the second episode, she had to be committed
- he was committed to prison
- transfer
- The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
- assign to a station
- transport commercially
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- send me your latest results
- I'll mail you the paper when it's written
- 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
- 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