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—sendable, adj./send/, v., sent, sending.v.t.1. to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.2. to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.3. to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia.4. to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction: to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling.5. to emit, discharge, or utter (usually fol. by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.6. to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.7. Elect.a. to transmit (a signal).b. to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.8. Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.v.i.9. to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.10. Elect. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.11. send down, Brit. to expel, esp. from Oxford or Cambridge.12. send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.13. send forth,a. to produce; bear; yield: plants sending forth new leaves.b. to dispatch out of a country as an export.c. to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.d. to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.14. send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.15. send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.16. send out,a. to distribute; issue.b. to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week.c. to order delivery: We sent out for coffee.17. send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing.18. send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness.19. send up,a. to release or cause to go upward; let out.b. Informal. to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life.c. to expose the flaws or foibles of through parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, or other forms of satire: The new movie sends up merchants who commercialize Christmas.[bef. 900; ME senden, OE sendan; c. G senden, Goth sandjan (causative) < Gmc base *sinth-, *santh- go, whence OE sith journey, sand message, messenger]Syn. 2. transmit, dispatch, forward. 4. cast, hurl, fling, project.Ant. 1. receive.send2/send/, v.i., sent, sending, n. Naut.scend.
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