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Meaning of 'send' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Send [ n.]
- The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
2 . Send [ v. i.]
- To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
- To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
3 . Send [ v. t.]
- To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
- To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
- To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

Meaning of 'send' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . send [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
Example in sentence:
  • After the second episode, she had to be committed;
  • he was committed to prison
Meaning (2):
- cause to go somewhere
Example in sentence:
  • He directed all his energies into his dissertation;
  • She sent her children to camp;
  • The explosion sent the car flying in the air
Meaning (3):
- to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
Example in sentence:
  • He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept
Meaning (4):
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
Example in sentence:
  • I'll mail you the paper when it's written;
  • send me your latest results
Meaning (5):
- transfer
Example in sentence:
  • The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
Meaning (6):
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
Example in sentence:
  • We cannot air this X-rated song

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