Meaning of send | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
   ditransitive, transitive
2. To suspend or dismiss from a university.
3. To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
   slang, transitive
4. To request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon.
5. To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
   transitive
6. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
   intransitive, usually
7. Sports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules.
   Sports
8. To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
   archaic, sometimes, transitive
9. To bestow; to grant.
   archaic, sometimes, transitive
10. To cause to be knocked or scattered about with force: a blow to the table that sent the dishes flying.
11. To inflict; to visit.
    archaic, sometimes, transitive
12. To dismiss (someone) abruptly.
13. To pitch.
    intransitive
14. send packing, to dismiss curtly.
15. To climb a route without falling.
    transitive
16. scend.
17. To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
    slang
18. To demand to appear, come, or assemble:call, convene, convoke, muster, summon.
19. To care.
    Nigeria, intransitive, slang
20. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently:emit, give, give forth, give off, give out, issue, let off, let out, release, throw off, vent.
21. To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
    UK, slang
22. Informal. To place officially in confinement:commit, consign, institutionalize.
23. To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.
    Singapore, transitive

Equivalents

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 the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.”

“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.”

“I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Send him victorious, / Happy and glorious, / Long to reign over us: / God save the King!”

“God send your mission may bring back peace.”

“Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!”

“The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.”

“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.”

“She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.”

“There is often brilliance in just saying screw it. Acting on intuition. Following the gut. Just doing it. Sending it and seeing what happens.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[…] 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" […]”

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