 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sent
adjective: caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted [ant:
{unsent}]
noun: 100 senti equal 1 kroon
[also: {senti} (pl)]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
send
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sent
See {send}
[also: {senti} (pl)]
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]:
Sent \Sent\, v. & n.
See {Scent}, v. & n. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sent \Sent\, obs.
3d pers. sing. pres. of {Send}, for sendeth.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sent \Sent\,
imp. & p. p. of {Send}.
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