send
/sɛnd/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.11 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee."
- "She sends me a letter every month."
- "Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building."
- "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
- "I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me."
- "The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers."
Etymology
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. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.
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Inflected Forms
sends (present, singular)
sending (participle, present)
sent (past)
sent (participle, past)
sended (nonstandard, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
sent (first person, past)
sendest (archaic, present)
sent (past, second person)
sentest (archaic, past)
sendeth (archaic, present)