send
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• verb
To cause something, such as a letter, package, or digital message, to be taken, carried, or transmitted to a particular destination.
"Please send the signed contract to our main office before Friday."
To direct, order, or arrange for a person to go to a particular place or institution for a specific purpose.
"The university decided to send three researchers to the international conference in Geneva."
To propel or cause an object to move rapidly or forcefully through the air or along a surface.
"A sudden gust of wind threatened to send the loose papers flying across the courtyard."
To cause someone or something to enter a specified state or condition.
"The soothing rhythm of the rain on the roof helped send the child to sleep."
• noun
An act of dispatching, transmitting, or sending something, especially an electronic message or a successful ascent of a climbing route without falling.
"The marketing team scheduled the newsletter send for Tuesday morning."
The forward surge ordriving impulse of waves or the tide, or the pitching motion of a ship into the trough of the sea.
"The small fishing boat rose and fell with the heavy send of the Atlantic swell."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English sendan ('to send, throw, dispatch'), derived from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną ('to make go'), a causative form of *sinþaną ('to go, travel').