send
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
- 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.
- Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
- She sends me a letter every month.
- (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- 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.
- 1957, Sam Cooke, "You Send Me",
- Darling you send me / I know you send me
- 1991, P.M. Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss",
- Baby you send me.
- 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
- To bring to a certain condition.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
- “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.
- (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings vi:32:
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- God send him well!
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 28:20:
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], 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 270129598:
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
- (nautical) To pitch.
- (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- : She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
- :
- (Nigeria, slang) To care.
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | (to) send | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | send | sent | |
2nd-person singular | send, sendest† | sent, sentest† | |
3rd-person singular | sends, sendeth† | sent | |
plural | send | ||
subjunctive | send | sent | |
imperative | send | — | |
participles | sending | sent |
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Noun[edit]
send (plural sends)
- (telecommunications) 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 […]
- (nautical) 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
- 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 51433663:
- the send of the sea
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
- 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate
- (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.
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Albanian[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *tsjam tam, from Proto-Indo-European *kiom tom, a sequence of two pronouns in neuter of which the first is related to 'se'.[2] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *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[edit]
send m
References[edit]
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139 : senn, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “send”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 394
Chinese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- 腥 (sen1)
Etymology[edit]
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send
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to send
Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
send
- imperative of sende
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
send
- imperative of sende
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Participle[edit]
send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)
- past participle of senda and sende
Verb[edit]
send
- imperative of senda and sende
Old Norse[edit]
Participle[edit]
send
- inflection of senda:
Verb[edit]
send
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