Other forms: sent, sending, sends
To send is to make a letter, message or object travel to somebody. Send a letter, send it by post, send me the details.
The past tense is sent. Send off means to post, and in football to order a player from the pitch; send for means to summon; send back means to return. It also means to cause a state: it sent him mad, sent prices up. Note sender, the person; send-off, a farewell; and send up, which in British English means to mock by imitation.
1verbsendTo make something travel to somebody.~98%
“She sent the whole file by post because nothing else worked.”
2verbcauseTo cause somebody or something to become a certain way.~2%
“The noise sent the dog completely wild.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 21 sentences found in the wild and placed 21 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
send is a causing to travel.
Old English sendan comes from a Germanic root meaning to cause to go, related to a noun meaning a journey. The word is a causative — it means to make something travel, which is why it always needs a destination.
Proto-Indo-European
*sent- (go)
Proto-Indo-European
*sont-eye-ti — to cause to go
Proto-Germanic
*sandijaną
Proto-West Germanic
*sandijan
Old English
sendan — to send, cause to go
Middle English
senden
English, today
send
Built from
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. 2 Cognate with stq 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA