send
IPA: sˈɛnd
noun
- (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
- (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.
- (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
- (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
- (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, south-east of Woking (OS grid ref TQ0255).
- (nautical) Alternative form of scend [The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.]
- (graphical user interface, often put into quotation marks) Alternative form of send (email icon) [(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.]
- (UK, education) Acronym of special educational needs and disability.
verb
- (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
- (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- (transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
- (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
- (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.
- (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
- (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care.
- (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
- (slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge
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Examples of "send" in Sentences
- The milkmaid sends an alert.
- Send us your toboggan photos
- I will send the rice to the poor.
- He asked them to send the tumbrel.
- I'll send the paper by the end of the week.
- A consignor is the party that sends the goods.
- The brain sends the id back to the cerebellum.
- Bourne sends the tape of the confession to Landy.
- Thanks for sending the four kittens of the Apocalypse.
- Alternatively, send an email to the website to enquire.
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