Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SENDCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SEND senden, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SENDCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SEND sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SENDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SEND *sandijan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SENDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SEND *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#SENDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEND *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕnd, IPA^(key): /sɛnd/Category:English 1-syllable words#SENDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEND

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• Rhymes: -ɛndCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnd#SENDCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnd/1 syllable#SEND

Verb

send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)Category:English lemmas#SENDCategory:English verbs#SENDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND, ditransitiveCategory:English ditransitive verbs#SEND) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

   Hyponyms: emit, broadcast, mail, post, transmit

   Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.

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   She sends me a letter every month.

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   Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.

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   • 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.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND, slangCategory:English slang#SEND) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.

   Synonyms: excite; see also Thesaurus:thrill

   I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.

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   • 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183:

     The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.

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   • 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me:

     Darling you send me / I know you send me

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   • 1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss:

     Baby you send me.

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3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND, Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#SEND) To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
   • 2020 October 13, Lavender Baj, “I’m Obsessed With The Painfully Mediocre Halloween Decorations At The IRL Amityville House”, in Pedestrian‎:

     In news that has absolutely sent me this spooky season, the owners of the literal Amityville Horror House (yep, *that* one with all the murders) have taken it upon themselves to decorate for Halloween.

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   • 2025 November 21, Krista Torres, “The Way These 16 Hilarious Signs Instantly Cured My Bad Mood Is Sending Me 😂”, in BuzzFeed‎:

     [see title]

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4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”
     The other two were silent for a few moments.
     “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.

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5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SEND, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing.

   Synonym: call

   Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.

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   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings vi:32:

     See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

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6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.

   Synonyms: bring about, bring to pass, set up

   1. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#SEND, of a blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant.
      • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

        God send him well!

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      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:45:

        That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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      • 1668, Izaak Walton, “Observations of the Otter and Chub”, in The Compleat Angler:

        Let’s be going with all my heart. God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch-Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too.

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      • c. 1700s, God Save the King:

        Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King!

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      • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

        God send your mission may bring back peace.

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      • 1840–1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in The Old Curiosity Shop:

        Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!

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   2. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#SEND, of a curse or punishment) To inflict; to visit.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:20:

        The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

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      • 1884, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans, “Scope and Aims of Hygiene”, in The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene, page 345:

        Vague notions of this kind still widely prevail, and great numbers regard diseases as things that come arbitrarily, or are "sent" by Divine Providence as judgments or punishments for sins.

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7. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SEND, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SEND) To pitch.
8. (climbingCategory:en:Climbing#SEND, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND) To climb a route without falling.

   She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.

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9. (slangCategory:English slang#SEND) To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
   • 2024 January 29, @JeffSullivan__, Twitter‎:

     There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.

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   • 2025 January 4, Trevor Rainbolt, 2:10 from the start, in you gotta be kidding‎:

     Why is my first instinct Spain here? Like if I was playing two seconds I would've just instant-sent Spain on this. But I think it―there's a part of me that thought it could've been Italy. But, I don't really know.

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10. (NigeriaCategory:Nigerian English#SEND, slangCategory:English slang#SEND, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SEND) To care. (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#SEND
11. (UKCategory:British English#SEND, slangCategory:English slang#SEND) 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.

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12. (SingaporeCategory:Singapore English#SEND, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SEND) To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
    • 2001 October 15, MPH Rubin (Judge), quoting Khwan-On Nathaphon, “Public Prosecutor v Khwan-On Nathaphon”, in elitigation.sg‎ (Judgment Text, CC 4/2001, Exhibit P-131 - statement recorded on 15 June 2000), High Court of Singapore, retrieved 12 December 2024:

      […] After closing the door, I shifted to the extreme right and sat directly behind the taxi driver. I told the driver to send me to Pasir Ris by saying "Pasir Ris Dr 12", bus stop" […]

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Noun

send (plural sends)Category:English lemmas#SENDCategory:English nouns#SENDCategory:English countable nouns#SENDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. (telecommunicationsCategory:en:Telecommunications#SEND) 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 […]

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2. (graphical user interfaceCategory:en:Graphical user interface#SEND; 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.

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3. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SEND) Alternative form of scend.
   • 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate:

     thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west

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   • 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     the send of the sea

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   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.

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4. (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SEND) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
5. (UKCategory:British English#SEND, slangCategory:English slang#SEND) 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.

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6. (climbingCategory:en:Climbing#SEND) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

Anagrams

• dens, ends, ENDS, Neds, neds, Ends, sned, NDEs Category:English ditransitive verbs#SENDCategory:English causative verbs#SENDCategory:English irregular verbs#SEND

Alternative forms

• senëCategory:Albanian links with redundant alt parameters#SEND (Gheg) ^[1]

Etymology

From Proto-AlbanianCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Albanian#SENDCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Albanian#SEND *tsjam tam, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#SENDCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEND *kiom tom, a sequence of two pronouns in neuter of which the first is related to 'se'.^[2] Alternatively from Proto-AlbanianCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Albanian#SENDCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Albanian#SEND *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 mCategory:Albanian lemmas#SENDCategory:Albanian nouns#SENDCategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Albanian masculine nouns#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. thing, object

References

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
• “send”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “send”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Alternative forms

• 腥 (sen¹)Category:Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SEND, (text messaging) sd

Etymology

From EnglishCategory:Cantonese terms borrowed from English#SENDCategory:Cantonese terms derived from English#SEND send.

Pronunciation

Verb

sendCategory:Chinese lemmas#SENDCategory:Chinese verbs#SENDCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#SEND) to send (in electronic means)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/, [sɛnˀ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#SEND

Verb

sendCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Danish verb forms#SENDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. imperative of sende

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Nigerian Pidgin entries#SEND.

Verb

sendCategory:Nigerian Pidgin lemmas#SENDCategory:Nigerian Pidgin verbs#SENDCategory:Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#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.

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Verb

sendCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#SENDCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. imperative of sende

Participle

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk participles#SENDCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk past participles#SENDCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. past participle of sendaCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk past participles#SEND and sende

Verb

sendCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms#SENDCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. imperative of senda and sende

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /send/Category:Old English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEND
• Rhymes: -endCategory:Rhymes:Old English/end#SENDCategory:Rhymes:Old English/end/1 syllable#SEND

Verb

sendCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Old English verb forms#SENDCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. singular imperative of sendan

Participle

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

Verb

sendCategory:Old Norse non-lemma forms#SENDCategory:Old Norse verb forms#SENDCategory:Old Norse entries with incorrect language header#SENDCategory:Pages with entries#SENDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#SEND

1. second-person singular active imperative of senda