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Send   /sɛnd/   Listen
verb
Send  v. t.  (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)  
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." "I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me." "Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires."
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." "O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me."
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!" "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke." "And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." "God send your mission may bring back peace."



Send  v. i.  (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)  
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.
(Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.



noun
Send  n.  (Written also scend)  (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. "The send of the sea".






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"Send" Quotes from Famous Books



... Johnny was "inside" somewhere on a job, and it was arranged that Dan should go in to the Katherine at once for nails and "things," and to see if the telegraph people could find out Johnny's whereabouts down the line, and send him along. ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

... he said, remove all the Genoese, but he would send on board the tartane only seven men on whom he could perfectly depend for respectful behaviour, so that the captives would be able to take the air on deck as freely as before. There was no doubt that he was ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... are hours of special danger. The enemy may attack late in the day in order to establish himself on captured ground by intrenching during the night; or he may send forward troops under cover of darkness in order to make a strong attack at early dawn. Special precaution is therefore taken at those hours by holding the outpost in readiness, and by sending patrols in advance of the line of observation. If a ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... thing, Your Majesty," Hitler began, but the hot, glowing eyes were too much to face. His knees buckled and he sank, groveling, on the floor. "Didn't I send you millions of customers?" he wailed. "Haven't I done a good job of sweeping out and collecting garbage? Have a heart, Nick. I came in here to sweep, and how would I ...
— Satan and the Comrades • Ralph Bennitt

... and we came to terms, which I resolved to make definite then and there. Two letters were exchanged between us: one in which he made the Manoir-au-Puits over to me for the sum which I had paid him; and one, which he pocketed immediately, by which I was to send him as much more in America on the day on which the decree of divorce was pronounced.... So the affair was settled. I am sure that at that moment he was accepting in good faith. He looked upon ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc


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