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Activate and Send

verb

  • Put in motion or move to act.
    • usage: "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
  • Make active or more active.
    • usage: "activate an old file"
  • Make more adsorptive.
    • usage: "activate a metal"
  • Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter.
  • Make (substances) radioactive. .
(v.t.) To make active.

verb

  • Cause to go somewhere.
    • usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
  • To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place.
    • usage: "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"
  • Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.
    • usage: "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
  • Transport commercially.
  • Assign to a station.
  • Transfer.
    • usage: "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.
    • usage: "We cannot air this X-rated song"