send

Etymology

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

verb

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
   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. 2013-06-14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
2. (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
   The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers. 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183
   Darling you send me / I know you send me 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me
   Baby you send me. 1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
   Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
5. (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.
6. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
7. (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
   She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
8. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care.
9. (UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
   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. 2017-11-07, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin
10. (slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge

noun

1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
   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 […] 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71
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
   thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate
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.
   Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send. 2017-11-07, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin
6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.