send
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology 1
From Middle English senden (“to send”), from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną (“to cause to go”), from *sinþaną (“to go, journey”), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to walk, travel”). Cognate with Dutch zenden (“to send”), Norwegian and Danish sende (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
Verb
send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past and past participle sent)
- (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
- 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.
- Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
- to send a message, or a letter
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- (slang, dated) 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.
- Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
- Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
- To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- Shakespeare
- God send him well!
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- Sir Walter Scott
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
- Shakespeare
- (nautical) To pitch.
- Totten
- The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
- Totten
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Etymology 2
From the verb.
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 […]
- 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification (page 71)
- (nautical) Alternative form of scend
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. C. Russell to this entry?)
- Longfellow
- the send of the sea
Albanian
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'[1]. 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 participal ending -ēns, Medieval Latin ens 'being' (hence Italian ente entity, body, being), Greek present participle ὤν (ṓn).
References
- A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.394