send has definitions from the fields of television,transportation
1
[ verb ] cause to go somewhere

Synonyms

direct

Examples

"The explosion sent the car flying in the air" "She sent her children to camp" "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

When the shouting ended , the bill passed , 114 to 4 , sending it to the Senate , where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen._George_Parkhouse of Dallas .

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Pete_Ward was sent in_for House and , after failing in a bunt attempt , popped to Howser on the grass back of short .

("Editorials"...)

Thus , when the Russians sent up their first sputnik , American chagrin was human enough , and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

In_fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south , because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down .

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

On February 17 , Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena_Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting_out ranches the company had purchased .

2
[ verb ] to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

Synonyms

send_out

Examples

: "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept."

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

The House passed finally , and sent to the Senate , a bill extending the State_Health_Department 's authority to give planning assistance to cities .

(Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)

By 1871 L._C._Orvis , manager of the `` Western_Union_Telegraph_Company '' , expressed willingness to send emergency telegrams on Sundays from his Village drugstore .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

I will send you the best the quarter has to offer '' .

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept .

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

Shelley sent a copy to Southey , a former friend , and another to Godwin .

3
[ verb ] cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

Synonyms

post mail

Examples

"send me your latest results" "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

Used in print

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

By early summer , he wrote from Laramie that he was suffering from the wound inflicted in the ambush and was in_a_bad_way financially , so Pels sent him a draft for $ 100 , warning that it was still not wise for him to return .

Pels also sent a check for $ 100 to Russell 's widow and had a white marble monument erected on his grave .

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

On November 7 , 1859 , the Providence_Daily_Journal reprinted a letter sent to John_Brown from `` E._B. '' , a Quaker lady in Newport .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

Another woman , addressing Christmas_cards , said to her husband : `` We sent them one last year but they did n't send us one , so they probably won't send us one this year because they 'll think we won't send them one because they did n't last year , do n't you think , or shall we '' ?

Another woman , addressing Christmas_cards , said to her husband : `` We sent them one last year but they did n't send us one , so they probably won't send us one this year because they 'll think we won't send them one because they did n't last year , do n't you think , or shall we '' ?

4
[ verb ] (transportation) transport commercially

Synonyms

ship transport

Used in print

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

These thermometers have now been sent to the United_Kingdom for calibration at the National_Physical_Laboratory .

5
[ verb ] assign to a station

Synonyms

station post place base

Used in print

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

Accounts were garbled at the telegraph office when they sent old George down to Parkersburg for the news .

(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep_an_eye_on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi 's party .

6
[ verb ] transfer

Synonyms

get_off send_off

Examples

"The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor...)

That this and the closing of the East_Berlin-West_Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain , France , and the United_States sent to Moscow after the latter 's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor_Adenauer and other West German officials to West_Berlin .

(The Miami Herald,...)

Word OF Dag_Hammarskjold 's death in an African plane crash has sent a shockwave around the globe .

(The Providence Journal BR-B16. Chicago Daily Tribune...)

I would like very_much , on behalf of my husband and myself , to send our eternal thanks to all the wonderful people responsible_for the Gabrielle_Fund .

(Marian Nester, "New Methods of Parapsychology"...)

As always , a tape_recording or detailed notes are made , and a typescript of_this is sent to the absent sitter .

(Amber Dean, Encounter with Evil....)

I could send the money right back '' .

Related terms

transfer bon_voyage

7
[ verb ] cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

Examples

"After the second episode, she had to be committed" "he was committed to prison"

Used in print

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

Attorney_General Palmer made a series of raids that sent more_than 4000 so-called radicals to the jails , in direct violation of their constitutional rights .

A successful businessman recently prefaced his address to a luncheon group with the statement that all economists should be sent to the hospitals for the mentally deranged where they and their theories might rot together .

8
[ verb ] (television) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

Examples

"We cannot air this X-rated song"

Used in print

(Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)

The line soon lived_up_to its name , as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital_stock .

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