send > define

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"
  • synonyms: direct
• 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"
  • synonyms: send out
• 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"
  • synonyms: mail, post
• Transport commercially.
  • synonyms: transport, ship
• Assign to a station.
  • synonyms: station, post, place
• Transfer.
  • usage: "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
  • synonyms: get off, send off
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, charge
• Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.
  • usage: "We cannot air this X-rated song"
  • synonyms: air, broadcast, beam, transmit

• (v.t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
• (v.t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow or the like.
• (v.i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
• (v.t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
• (v.t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission or delivery of; as, to send a message.
• (v.i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or to do an errand.
• (n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.