send

English

Etymology

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”), Albanian endem (“I roam around, wander”).

Pronunciation

Verb

send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past and past participle sent) (transitive)

  1. To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
    Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
    To send a message.
    To send a letter.
  2. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  3. 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.

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Translations

make something go somewhere

Noun

send (plural sends)

  1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
    sends and receives
  2. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of W. C. Russell to this entry?)
    The send of the sea. — Longfellow.

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Albanian

Etymology

Most likely from Latin ens, (Gen.) entis ‘thing’. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *es- 'to be' (compare Hittite aššaanza (“being”), Latin praesentis (“presently”), Old Lithuanian santį (“being”), Old Prussian sins (“being”), Old High German sand (“truth”)).

Noun

send m

  1. thing, object
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Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /sɛn/, [sɛnˀ]

Verb

send

  1. imperative of sende
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