Meaning

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

    Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.

    She sends me a letter every month.

    senden, schicken, verschicken

    посыла́тьposylátʹ, слатьslatʹ, посла́тьposlátʹ

    посила́тиposyláty, сла́тиsláty, посла́тиposláty

    cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

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

    I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.

  3. (Internet, transitive)To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.

  4. (transitive)To bring to a certain condition, to drive.

  5. (intransitive, usually)To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing.

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

  6. (intransitive)To pitch.

  7. (transitive)To climb a route without falling.

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

  8. (slang)To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.

  9. (Nigeria, intransitive, slang)To care.

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

  11. (Singapore, transitive)To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.

    to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

  12. To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.

    (archaic, sometimes, transitive)To bestow; to grant.

Examples

4131 sentences
  1. Will you send it by mail?

    Ти пришлеш його поштою?

    ruТы пошлёшь это почтой?

    deWirst du es mit der Post schicken?

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  2. I'll send the book by mail.

    Я надішлю книгу поштою.

    ruЯ пошлю книгу по почте.

    deIch schicke das Buch per Post.

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  3. He sent me a birthday card.

    Він надіслав мені листівку до дня народження.

    ruОн прислал мне открытку на день рождения.

    deEr schickte mir eine Geburtstagskarte.

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  4. He sent a card to Mary.

    Він відправив Мері листівку.

    ruОн отправил Мэри открытку.

    deEr hat Mary eine Karte geschickt.

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  5. She sent this book to me.

    Вона надіслала мені цю книгу.

    ruОна послала мне эту книгу.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
make something go somewhere:
Русский
By meaning 1
make something go somewhere:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
make something go somewhere:

Origin

From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-W

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

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Forms

sends, sending, sent, sent
Base formsend · to send
3rd person singularsends
Present participlesending
Past simplesent
Past participlesent

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysend
he, she, itsends

Past simpleLesson

all personssent

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sent
he, she, ithas sent

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill send

Phrasal verbs

10 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

57 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

39 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • please send
  • to send this
  • send a message
  • to send a
  • sent a letter
  • sent the letter
  • explosion sent debris
  • forgot to send
  • sent debris flying
  • send this package
  • like to send
  • sending christmas cards

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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