send

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'. 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).


send

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to send (in electronic means)


send

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 our front window.

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.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

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.

1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183:

Darling you send me / I know you send me

Baby you send me.

1991, P.M. Dawn, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss:

(transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.

“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[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To bring to a certain condition.

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?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings vi:32:

(intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.

God send him well!

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:20:

God send your mission may bring back peace.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

(transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

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

(climbing, transitive) To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

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.

2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:

(UK, slang) To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.

(slang, rare) To launch oneself off an edge.

en-verb

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

sends (present singular third-person)
sending (participle present)
sent (past)
sent (participle past)
sended (nonstandard participle past)
send (infinitive)

send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

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.


send

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:

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.

Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(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.

thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west

1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate:

the send of the sea

1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.

Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send.

(UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.

(climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.


send

Cow no send if moto dey come or not.

(Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Goat, dog, and Malu”, in Storybooks African Languages:

Cow does not care if a car is coming or not.


send

head

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

sendt (neuter)
sende (definite plural singular)


send

inflection of senda:
strong feminine nominative singular

strong neuter nominative/accusative plural


send

second-person singular active imperative of senda