send
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (8)sent, sends, sending
- 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”Synonyms: directMore general move, displaceMore specific project, refer, divert, turn, redirect, blow, route
- 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”Synonyms: send outMore general transmit, transferMore specific mail, send in, mail out
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place“send me your latest results”“I'll mail you the paper when it's written”Synonyms: mailpostMore general transferMore specific airmail, register, express, express-mail
- transport commerciallySynonyms: transportshipMore general move, displaceMore specific dispatch, forward, railroad, barge
- assign to a stationSynonyms: stationpostplaceMore general move, displaceMore specific locate, garrison, fort
- transfer“The spy sent the classified information off to Russia”Synonyms: get offsend offMore general transfer
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution“After the second episode, she had to be committed”“he was committed to prison”Synonyms: commitinstitutionalizeinstitutionalisecharge
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television“We cannot air this X-rated song”Synonyms: airbroadcastbeamtransmit
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Translations
Verb make something go somewhere
- Spanish
- enviar
- French
- envoyer
- German
- schicken
- Italian
- mandare
- Portuguese
- enviar
- Turkish
- yollamak
- Russian
- посыла́ть posylátʹ
- Arabic
- أَرْسَلَ ʔarsala
- Chinese
- 发送 fāsòng
- Japanese
- 送る okuru
36 more languages
- Dutch
- sturen
- Polish
- wysyłać
- Swedish
- skicka
- Greek
- στέλνω stélno
- Korean
- 보내다 bonaeda
- Indonesian
- mengirim
- Vietnamese
- gửi
- Hungarian
- küld
- Portuguese (PT)
- enviar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 送 sòng
- Albanian
- dërgoj
- Breton
- kas
- Catalan
- enviar
- Corsican
- mandà
- Czech
- posílat
- Danish
- sende
- Esperanto
- sendi
- Estonian
- saatma
- Finnish
- lähettää
- Georgian
- გაგზავნა gagzavna
- Hebrew
- שלח shalákh
- Icelandic
- senda
- Kurdish
- şandin
- Latvian
- sūtīt
- Lithuanian
- siųsti
- Malagasy
- mandefa
- Norwegian
- sende
- Romanian
- trimite
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuir
- Serbo-Croatian
- poslati
- Slovak
- posielať
- Slovenian
- poslati
- Swahili
- tuma
- Walloon
- evoyî
- Welsh
- anfon
- Yiddish
- שיקן shikn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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. sī…, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s…t. Cf. Sense.
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.— Jonathan 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!” William Shakespeare
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 Walter Scott
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. Nautical To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Benjamin J. Totten
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Nautical The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] William Clark Russell “The send of the sea”. Henry W. Longfellow
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54