send

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make an object, message, or person go from one place to another.

   Please send me your latest results by email.

2. 2
   verb

   To ask someone to go somewhere to do a task or fetch something.

   Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.

3. 3
   verb

   To cause someone or something to reach a particular state.

   The loud noise sent the children into a panic.

Common collocations

• send a card Verb + noun
• send a letter Verb + noun
• send a message Verb + noun

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 derives 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.

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