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-ti (“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.
Meanings
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:
(capitalized, often, qualifier: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.
The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
the send of the sea 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
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:
(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.
Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send. 2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:
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-ti (“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.
Meanings
(ditransitive, transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
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 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
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.
(slang, transitive) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
Darling you send me / I know you send me 1957, Sam Cooke, You Send Me:
I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
Baby you send me. 1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss:
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:
(Internet, transitive) To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
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. 2020 October 13, Lavender Baj, “I’m Obsessed With The Painfully Mediocre Halloween Decorations At The IRL Amityville House”, in Pedestrian:
[see title] 2025 November 21, Krista Torres, “The Way These 16 Hilarious Signs Instantly Cured My Bad Mood Is Sending Me 😂”, in BuzzFeed:
(transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
“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. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
(intransitive, usually, with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings vi:32:
Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
(archaic, followed by a dependent proposition, of a blessing or reward, sometimes, transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about. ▸ To bestow; to grant.
Let’s be going with all my heart. God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch-Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. 1668, Izaak Walton, “Observations of the Otter and Chub”, in The Compleat Angler:
Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending! 1840–1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
God send your mission may bring back peace. 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
God send him well! c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:45:
Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King! c. 1700s, God Save the King:
(archaic, followed by a dependent proposition, of a curse or punishment, sometimes, transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about. ▸ To inflict; to visit.
Vague notions of this kind still widely prevail, and great numbers regard diseases as things that come arbitrarily, or are "sent" by Divine Providence as judgments or punishments for sins. 1884, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans, “Scope and Aims of Hygiene”, in The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene, page 345:
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:20:
(intransitive) To pitch.
(transitive) To climb a route without falling.
She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
(slang) To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens. 2024 January 29, @JeffSullivan__, Twitter:
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. 2025 January 4, Trevor Rainbolt, 2:10 from the start, in you gotta be kidding:
(Nigeria, intransitive, slang) To care.
(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 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:
(Singapore, transitive) To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
[…] 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" […] 2001 October 15, MPH Rubin (Judge), quoting Khwan-On Nathaphon, “Public Prosecutor v Khwan-On Nathaphon”, in elitigation.sg (Judgment Text, CC 4/2001, Exhibit P-131 - statement recorded on 15 June 2000), High Court of Singapore, retrieved 12 Dec 2024:
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condition) · te పంపించు (make something go somewhere) · be адпра́віць (make something go somewhere) · scn mannari (make something go somewhere) · oc enviar (make something go somewhere) · ml അയക്കുക (make something go somewhere) · jv ater (make something go somewhere) · el στέλνω (make something go somewhere) · sco send (make something go somewhere) · ia inviar (make something go somewhere) · ajp بعت (make something go somewhere) · hy ուղարկել (make something go somewhere) · af stuur (make something go somewhere) · sv sända (make something go somewhere) · srn seni (make something go somewhere) · mr पाठवने (make something go somewhere) · sh послати (make something go somewhere) · uk посила́ти (make something go somewhere) · si යවනවා (bring to a certain condition) · cmn 送 (make something go somewhere) · ru отправля́ть (make something go somewhere) · mwl mandar (make something go somewhere) · bqi فشنیدن (make something go somewhere) · id mengirim (make something go somewhere) · an mandar 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بَعَثَ (make something go somewhere) · pt despachar (make something go somewhere) · pdt schekjen (make something go somewhere) · pl słać (make something go somewhere) · kk жіберу (make something go somewhere) · dng со (make something go somewhere) · cmn 發 /发 (make something go somewhere) · mi tunga (make something go somewhere) · ro expedia (make something go somewhere) · sh слати (make something go somewhere) · om erguu (make something go somewhere) · kmr şandin (make something go somewhere) · es remitir (make something go somewhere) · my ပို့ (make something go somewhere) · uga 𐎍𐎛𐎋 (make something go somewhere) · kw danvon (make something go somewhere) · et saatma (make something go somewhere) · grc στέλλω (make something go somewhere) · lb schécken (make something go somewhere) · hy հղել (make something go somewhere) · ga cuir (make something go somewhere) · lo ສົ່ງ (make something go somewhere) · be высыла́ць (make something go somewhere) · de schicken (make something go somewhere) · fur mandâ (make something go somewhere) · ar أَرْسَلَ (make something go somewhere) · rm spedir (make something go somewhere) · lv sūtīt (make something go somewhere) · tr göndermek (make something go somewhere) · rm trametter (make something go somewhere) · swb uv̄eleha (make something go somewhere) · mn илгээх (make something go somewhere) · an ninviar (make something go somewhere) · an inviar (make something go somewhere) · tl ipadala (make something go somewhere) · crh yollamaq (make something go somewhere) · be слаць (make something go somewhere) · lol toma (make something go somewhere) · it inviare (make something go somewhere) · ay apayaña (make something go somewhere) · ln toma (make something go somewhere)