send¹ (sĕnd)

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[Middle English senden, from Old English sendan.]

verb: sent (sĕnt), send·ing, sends. 

transitive verb 

1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3. 1. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
   2. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
   3. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
4. 1. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
   2. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.
5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
7. 1. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
   2. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

intransitive verb 

1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.

phrasal verbs

send down

To suspend or dismiss from a university.

send for

To request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon.

send in

To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.

Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.

To cause (someone) to arrive in or become involved in a particular place or situation: The commander sent in the sappers. It's time to send in the lawyers.

send off

Sports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules.

send up

To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.

To make a parody of: “grandiloquently eccentric but witty verbiage . . . that would send up the nastiness of suburban London” (New York)

idioms

send flying

To cause to be knocked or scattered about with force: a blow to the table that sent the dishes flying.

send packing

To dismiss (someone) abruptly.

derivatives

send́er

noun

synonyms:

send¹dispatch, forward, route, ship, transmit These verbs mean to cause to go or be taken to a destination: sent the package by parcel post; dispatched a union representative to the factory; forwards the mail to their new address; routed the soldiers through New York; shipped his books to his dormitory; transmits money by cable.

send² (sĕnd)

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verb noun 

Nautical

Variant of scend

scend,
also send (sĕnd)

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Nautical [Probably alteration (influenced by descend) (or ascend), of send¹.]

intransitive verb: scend·ed, also send·ed, scend·ing, send·ing, scends, sends 

To heave upward on a wave or swell.

noun 

The rising movement of a ship on a wave or swell.