send
To make something go from one place to anotherTo make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
» Will you send it by mail?
Wirst du es mit der Post schicken?
Werden Sie es mit der Post schicken?
Ты пошлёшь это почтой?
Ти пришлеш його поштою?
Ти пришлеш її поштою?
Meaning
13 senses(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
(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.
(Internet, transitive)To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
(transitive)To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
(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.
(intransitive)To pitch.
(transitive)To climb a route without falling.
She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
(slang)To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
(Nigeria, intransitive, slang)To care.
(UK, slang)To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
(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
To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
(archaic, sometimes, transitive)To bestow; to grant.
Examples
4131 sentencesWill you send it by mail?
Ти пришлеш його поштою?
ruТы пошлёшь это почтой?
deWirst du es mit der Post schicken?
I'll send the book by mail.
Я надішлю книгу поштою.
ruЯ пошлю книгу по почте.
deIch schicke das Buch per Post.
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.
He sent a card to Mary.
Він відправив Мері листівку.
ruОн отправил Мэри открытку.
deEr hat Mary eine Karte geschickt.
She sent this book to me.
Вона надіслала мені цю книгу.
ruОна послала мне эту книгу.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-WFrom 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, sentPhrasal verbs
10 phrasal verbs- send offвиступати, виставатиTo send; to dispatch.
- send outвислати, висилатиTo issue, dispatch or transmit.
- send backповернутися, повертатисяTo return (something) to its origin.
- send awayвміти, умітиTo dismiss from one's presence.
- send forзвати, кричатиTo order or summon (a person) to one's presence.
- send upUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up.
- send onTo introduce (a substitute) into the game.
- send inTo give (one's name), present (one's card) when making a social call.
Synonyms
57 synonyms- transfer:get offsend off
- to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place:send out
- cause to go somewhere:direct
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television:airbroadcastbeamtransmit
- transport commercially:transportship
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place:mailpost
Word family
39 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
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