send
Sistem
Etymology
From Srednji Engleski senden, from Stari Engleski sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *sandijan, from Pra-Germanski *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.
Pronunciation
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).
- 2013 jun 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.
- Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
- She sends me a letter every month.
- (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
- The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.
- 1957, Sam Cooke, "You Send Me",
- Darling you send me / I know you send me
- 1991, P.M. Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss",
- Baby you send me.
- 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
- To bring to a certain condition.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 9
- “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. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 9
- (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- (nautical) To pitch.
- (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
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Noun
send (plural sends)
- (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 […]
- (nautical) Alternative form of scend
- 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate
- thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west
- Šablon:RQ:Longfellow Miles Standish
- the send of the sea
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
- The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.
- 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.
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
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 Latinski -ēns (participal ending), Medieval Latin ens (“being”) (hence Italijanski ente (“entity, body, being”)), and Antički Grčki ὤν (ṓn) (present participle).
Noun
send m
References
- ↑ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139 : senn, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ↑ Šablon:R:sq:Orel
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
send
Danish
Pronunciation
Verb
send
- imperative of sende
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
send
- imperative of sende
Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
- past [[Dodatak:Rečnik#participle|participle]] of senda and sende
Verb
send
- imperative of senda and sende
Old Norse
Participle
send
- inflection of senda: