send
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Is send a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of send?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).Examples: "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."ditransitivetransitive
2. (transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.Examples: "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."; "Darling you send me / I know you send me"Synonyms: excite, animate, awaken, electrify, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitateslangtransitive
3. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.Examples: "“I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.” The other two were silent for a few moments. “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul."transitive
4. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.Examples: "Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once."; "See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?"Synonyms: callintransitiveusually
5. (transitive, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.Examples: "God send him well!"; "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."; "Let’s be going with all my heart. God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch-Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too."Synonyms: bring about, bring to pass, set uparchaicsometimestransitive
6. (transitive, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.Examples: "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke."; "Vague notions of this kind still widely prevail, and great numbers regard diseases as things that come arbitrarily, or are "sent" by Divine Providence as judgments or punishments for sins."Synonyms: bring about, bring to pass, set uparchaicsometimestransitive
noun (English)
1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.Examples: "In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]"
2. (graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.Examples: "Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo."capitalizedoften
3. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.Examples: "thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west"; "the send of the sea"; "The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard."alt-ofalternative
4. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.Scotland
5. (UK, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.Examples: "Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send."UKslang
6. (climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
noun (English)
1. (graphical user interface, often put into quotation marks) Alternative letter-case form of send (email icon)alt-of
noun (English)
1. (UK, education) Acronym of special educational needs and disability.UKabbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary