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send

See also: Sen, Sënd, and SEND

English

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Etymology

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    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 derives from the verb.

    Cognates

    Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

    Pronunciation

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    • enPR: sĕnd, IPA(key): /sɛnd/
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    • Rhymes: -ɛnd

    Verb

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    send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)

    1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
      Hyponyms: emit, broadcast, mail, post, transmit
      Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
      She sends me a letter every month.
      Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.
      • 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.
    2. (transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
      Synonyms: excite; see also Thesaurus:thrill
      I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
    3. (transitive, Internet slang) To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
      • 2020 October 13, Lavender Baj, “I’m Obsessed With The Painfully Mediocre Halloween Decorations At The IRL Amityville House”, in Pedestrian‎[1]:
        In news that has absolutely sent me this spooky season, the owners of the literal Amityville Horror House (yep, *that* one with all the murders) have taken it upon themselves to decorate for Halloween.
      • 2025 November 21, Krista Torres, “The Way These 16 Hilarious Signs Instantly Cured My Bad Mood Is Sending Me 😂”, in BuzzFeed‎[2]:
        [see title]
    4. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
    5. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing.
      Synonym: call
      Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
    6. (transitive, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
      Synonyms: bring about, bring to pass, set up
      1. (archaic, of a blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant.
      2. (archaic, of a curse or punishment) To inflict; to visit.
    7. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
    8. (climbing, transitive) To climb a route without falling.
      She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
    9. (slang) To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
      • 2024 January 29, @JeffSullivan__, Twitter‎[3]:
        There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.
      • 2025 January 4, Trevor Rainbolt, 2:10 from the start, in you gotta be kidding‎[4]:
        Why is my first instinct Spain here? Like if I was playing two seconds I would've just instant-sent Spain on this. But I think it―there's a part of me that thought it could've been Italy. But, I don't really know.
    10. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    11. (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
      • 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎[5]performed by Soph Aspin:
        But if you want beef, it's war. I'll rip you to shreds and send once more […] And you think you can send for Aspin? Sort it, stop gassing.
    12. (Singapore, transitive) To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
      • 2001 October 15, MPH Rubin (Judge), quoting Khwan-On Nathaphon, “Public Prosecutor v Khwan-On Nathaphon”, in elitigation.sg‎[6] (Judgment Text, CC 4/2001, Exhibit P-131 - statement recorded on 15 June 2000), High Court of Singapore, retrieved 12 December 2024:
        […] After closing the door, I shifted to the extreme right and sat directly behind the taxi driver. I told the driver to send me to Pasir Ris by saying "Pasir Ris Dr 12", bus stop" […]

    Conjugation

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    Conjugation of send
    infinitive (to) send
    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

    † Archaic or obsolete.

    Derived terms

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    Translations

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    Noun

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    send (plural sends)

    1. (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 […]
    2. (graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
      Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
    3. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.
    4. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
    5. (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
      • 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”‎[7]performed by Soph Aspin:
        Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.
    6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

    Alternative forms

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    • (graphical user interface): Send

    Derived terms

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    Albanian

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    Etymology

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    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

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    send m

    1. thing, object

    Declension

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    Declension of send
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative send sendi sende sendet
    accusative sendin
    dative sendi sendit sendeve sendeve
    ablative sendesh

    References

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    1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139 : senn, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
    2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “send”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

    Further reading

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    • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[8], 1980
    • “send”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
    • Newmark, Leonard (1999), “send”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[9], Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Chinese

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    Alternative forms

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    • 腥 (sen1), (text messaging) sd

    Etymology

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    From English send.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    send

    1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to send (in electronic means)

    Danish

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    Pronunciation

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    send

    1. imperative of sende

    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Noun

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    send

    1. (Early Scots) alternative form of sonde

    Etymology 2

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    Verb

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    send

    1. (Northern or Late Middle English) alternative form of senden

    Nigerian Pidgin

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    Etymology

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    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

    Verb

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    send

    1. to care (to be concerned about)
      • (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Goat, dog, and Malu”, in Storybooks African Languages‎[10]:
        Cow no send if moto dey come or not.
        Cow does not care if a car is coming or not.

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Verb

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    send

    1. imperative of sende

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Participle

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    send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

    1. past participle of senda and sende

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    send

    1. imperative of senda and sende

    Old English

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    send

    1. singular imperative of sendan

    Old Norse

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    Participle

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    send

    1. inflection of senda:
      1. strong feminine nominative singular
      2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

    Verb

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    send

    1. second-person singular active imperative of senda
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