send

See also: Send, SEND, and Sënd

English

Etymology

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 is from the verb.

Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: sĕnd, IPA(key): /sɛnd/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

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).
    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 our front window.
    • 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 excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
  4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
    Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
  5. (transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  6. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
  7. (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
    She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
  8. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  9. (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
    • 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎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.
  10. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge.

Conjugation
Conjugation of send
infinitive (to) send
present tense past tense
1st-person singular send sent
2nd-person singular send, sendest† sent, sentest†
3rd-person singular sends, sendeth† sent
plural send
subjunctive send sent
imperative send —
participles sending sent

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

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
  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)”‎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.

Alternative forms
  • (graphical user interface): Send

Derived terms
  • hit send

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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).

Noun

send m

  1. thing, object

References
  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139 : senn, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “send”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English send.

Pronunciation

Verb

send

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

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɛn/, [sɛnˀ]

Verb

send

  1. imperative of sende

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

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

Verb

send

  1. to care (to be concerned about)
    • (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Goat, dog, and Malu”, in Storybooks African Languages‎:
      Cow no send if moto dey come or not.
      Cow does not care if a car is coming or not.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

send

  1. imperative of sende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

  1. past participle of senda and sende

Verb

send

  1. imperative of senda and sende

Old Norse

Participle

send

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

Verb

send

  1. second-person singular active imperative of senda
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