Wiktionary

send

See also: Send, SEND, and Sënd

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.

Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

PronunciationEdit

  • enPR: sĕnd, IPA(key): /sɛnd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd

VerbEdit

send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past sent, past participle sent or (nonstandard) sended)

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
    • 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.
    She sends me a letter every month.
  2. (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition.
  4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
    Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
  5. (transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to bring; to grant; to inflict; (archaic) to visit. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  6. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
  7. (climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
    She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
  8. (Nigeria, slang, intransitive) To care.

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of send
infinitive (to) send
present tense past tense
1st-person singular send sent
2nd-person singular send, sendest† sent, sentest†
3rd-person singular sends, sendeth† sent
plural send
subjunctive send sent
imperative send —
participles sending sent

†Archaic or obsolete.

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TranslationsEdit

NounEdit

send (plural sends)

  1. (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 […]
  2. (graphical user interface; often capitalized, 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.
  3. (nautical) Alternative form of scend
  4. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
  5. (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
  6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

Derived termsEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • (graphical user interface): Send

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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 Latin -ēns (participal ending), Medieval Latin ens (“being”) (hence Italian ente (“entity, body, being”)), and Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn) (present participle).

NounEdit

send m

  1. thing, object

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139 : senn, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

ChineseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English send.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

send

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to send

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

send

  1. imperative of sende

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

send

  1. imperative of sende

Norwegian NynorskEdit

ParticipleEdit

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

  1. past participle of senda and sende

VerbEdit

send

  1. imperative of senda and sende

Old NorseEdit

ParticipleEdit

send

  1. inflection of senda:
    1. strong feminine nominative singular
    2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

VerbEdit

send

  1. second-person singular active imperative of senda
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