From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Send \Send\, noun (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also {scend}.] --W. C. Russell. ''The send of the sea''. --Longfellow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Send \Send\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sending}.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. s["a]nda, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[=i]?, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t. Cf. {Sense}.]
1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. --Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. --John viii. 42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. --Swift.
2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. --Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. --Ps. xliii. 3.
3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. ''God send him well!'' --Shak.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. --Deut. xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. --Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back peace. --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Send \Send\, verb (used without an object)
1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? --2 Kings vi. 32.
2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. --Totten.
{To send for}, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: {direct}]
2: to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept" [syn: {send out}]
3: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: {mail}, {post}]
4: transport commercially [syn: {transport}, {ship}]
5: assign to a station [syn: {station}, {post}, {base}, {place}]
6: transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: {get off}, {send off}]
7: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: {commit}, {institutionalize}, {institutionalise}, {charge}]
8: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: {air}, {broadcast}, {beam}, {transmit}] [also: {sent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "send": address, address to, advance, air-express, airfreight, airmail, allocate, ask for, assign, be poised, beam, becharm, bewitch, billow, break, broadcast, bundle, bundle off, burlesque, call for, captivate, carry away, carry off, cart away, cast, charge, charm, comb, commission, commit, communicate, consign, convey, crash, dash, delectate, delegate, delight, deliver, delocalize, depute, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, displace, disseminate, drop a letter, ebb and flow, electrify, embark, emit, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enthuse, entrance, expedite, export, express, exude, fascinate, fax, fire, fling, float, forward, freak out, freight, get across, get over, give, give a start, give off, give word, grow, hand on, heave, hurl, imparadise, impart, imprison, incarcerate, jam, kick off, knock dead, knock out, lampoon, launch, lay aside, leave word, let fly, lift, mail, make fun of, make known, manhandle, move, newscast, order, parody, pass, pass along, pass on, peak, please, popple, post, project, propel, put aside, put in motion, radiate, radio, radiobroadcast, ravish, release, relocate, remit, remove, render, report, request, rise, rise and fall, roll, route, rush, satirize, scend, send away, send down, send for, send forth, send off, send up, send word, set afloat, set agoing, set aside, set going, set in motion, set on foot, share, share with, shift, ship, shoot, shortwave, shunt, side, sign off, sign on, signal, slay, smash, spoof, sportscast, start, start going, start off, start up, stir, summon, surge, swell, take away, take off, telecast, telegraph, televise, tell, thrill, throw, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, toss, transfer, transmit, transport, undulate, wave, wireless, wow
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