Etimology
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 is from the verb.
verb
send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)
(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
(transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
(transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
(intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
(transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
(nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
(climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
(Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
(UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
(Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge.
Examples
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 our front window.
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.
The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
Darling you send me / I know you send me
Baby you send me.
“I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”The other two were silent for a few moments.“But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.
Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
God send him well!
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
God send your mission may bring back peace.
She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
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.
Related words
synonyms
(make something go somewhere): emit, broadcast, mail, post, transmit
noun
send (plural sends)
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
(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.
(nautical) Alternative form of scend
(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
(UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
(climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
Examples
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 […]
Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west
the send of the sea
The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.