send
pronunciation
How to pronounce send in British English:
UK [send]
How to pronounce send in American English:
US [send]
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- Verb:
- cause to go somewhere
- to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- transport commercially
- assign to a station
- transfer
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
Word Origin
- send
- send: [OE] English shares send with the other Germanic languages – German senden, Dutch zenden, Swedish sönda, and Danish sende. These all go back to a prehistoric ancestor *santhjan, which originated as a causative derivative of a base denoting ‘go, journey’ – so etymologically send means ‘cause to go’.
- send (v.)
- Old English sendan "send, send forth; throw, impel," from Proto-Germanic *sandijan (cognates: Old Saxon sendian, Old Norse and Old Frisian senda, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch senden, Dutch zenden, German senden, Gothic sandjan), causative form of base *sinþan, denoting "go, journey" (source of Old English sið "way, journey," Old Norse sinn, Gothic sinþs "going, walk, time"), from PIE root *sent- "to head for, go" (cognates: Lithuanian siusti "send;" see sense (n.)). Also used in Old English of divine ordinance (as in godsend, from Old English sand "messenger, message," from Proto-Germanic *sandaz "that which is sent"). Slang sense of "to transport with emotion, delight" is recorded from 1932, in American English jazz slang.
Example
- 1. Parents and family members send cards and give presents .
- 2. Mr obama should send at least 40000 more .
- 3. He is disgusted that she would send another woman to his bed .
- 4. They send regular email updates .
- 5. Don 't send me a card .