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Meaning send meaning

What does send mean?
Definitions in simple English

send

To send something is to make the thing go somewhere without the person. A person sends a letter by putting it in a mailbox. A person can send another person somewhere by telling the person to go there. She needed to send a letter to her mother to say she had arrived safely. Could you send Roger into see me please?

send

(= direct) cause to go somewhere The explosion sent the car flying in the air She sent her children to camp He directed all his energies into his dissertation to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept (= mail) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place send me your latest results I'll mail you the paper when it's written (= transport) transport commercially transfer The spy sent the classified information off to Russia (= station) assign to a station (= commit) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution After the second episode, she had to be committed he was committed to prison (= air, broadcast) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television We cannot air this X-rated song

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Simple sentences

It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.
Send it by airmail.
As soon as you have the car fixed, please send me a letter with the cost. I'll send you the money.
The law obliges us to send our children to school.
Send me a letter when you arrive.
I'd like to send this postcard to Japan.
I'll send you a progress report.
Please send me a postcard.
Tom used to send me birthday gifts.
Don't send it to me anymore.
Don't send it to me again.
I told them to send me another ticket.
If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.
When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins.
When you send a telegram, brevity is essential because you will be charged for every word.
Send me the best employees that money can buy. Money is no object.
Please send an ambulance.
Send me the account.
Please fill in the application form and send it back by November 2nd.
Do you think we should send for the doctor?
Let's send for the doctor.
Could you send me a brochure?
Send my greetings to your wife.
You must send for the doctor.
Send for the doctor.
Will you send for a doctor?
You'd better send for a doctor.

Movie subtitles

You can only receive not send.
Can you send him and the test unit over there after I make arrangements there?
The sultan of MaIindi chose a giraffe to send.
Well how did you like that, boys? A real Lion King send-off.
It would be really fun if we could find an alien that could, you know, send me an email or twitter or whatever, all day long, but the profound question is life or nonlife.
They could send us a signal, in four years' time it would get here, and then we could reply eight years later to them.
Of course, we could luck out and actually send our message towards an alien civilisation.
We. will send you back to the world of the living.
Now I will send you.
If they find the body, please send her off well with a funeral, just like last time.
Send a message to Lord Choi immediately to make his appearance to the office.
That he could send a little child like you.
Should I say that I will get vengeance for you and send you to heaven?
Harry, you'll receive that syringe and you'll send it for FBC, U and E's, GS, TEG, EtOH, beta-HCG and drug screen.
The governor chose to send 3 units after him.
As soon as we have the money, we'll send them to the Algiers boarding school.
Almighty Allah will send a new prophet who'll come down the mountain and throw the infidels and traitors into the sea!
I asked Paris to send him here.
General Bugeaud once tried to send them false prophets.
They send their love and miss you.
Send us Garibaldi and Algeria will take care of itself, just like Italy.
Can we all send strength to Mary and her baby?
It's very important for you to understand that this is not the way that we conduct ourselves, and of course we will pay for it, so if you just send us the cost, we'll reimburse you for the window.
I didn't send you out there so you could play detective.
Sit tight. I'm gonna send some air your way.
We can uncouple the warhead, position the Dolphin III at the proper elevation, and send the missile off. Mathematically, at least, it should be possible to reach the station's orbit and in time.
I'd say that three is the most we can send out there to the station.
I'll send it to you now via a text message.
I'll send Lee Jae Ha a mail today, Marriage documents.
Can I send you texts?
You do it today, and you send it overnight!
They knew CIA protocol, if the routes were compromised, they'd send air support.
Send detective at once. John Davis.
Madame Labille is sure to send me to hell.
Don't you want to send that insolent creatrure to the devil?
Really, please send her back right away.

News and current affairs

Citizens should be able more easily to leak information, pitch stories, and send leads to mainstream investigative reporters.
Similarly, the US should cast a wary eye at Kuchma's decision to send troops to Iraq.
Such migration would also be good for the developing countries, because migrant workers send home remittances.
Thanks to generous US aid --Taiwan was for several decades second only to Israel in the amount of American aid received --Taiwan could send its best university students, especially engineers, to study abroad.
This drove the North, which depends on Chinese aid, to send diplomatic interlocutors to Japan, Russia, and even South Korea.
But the warning is a stern one for Kim Jong-un: China may send him to the sidelines if he does not change his behavior.
A successful outcome, demonstrating that countries can work together for the good of the planet, would send a powerful message of hope to the world - and to the people of Paris, who remain unbowed after the recent terrorist attacks.
A US in recession would no longer serve as the world's importer of last resort, which might send the rest of the world into recession as well.
President De la Rua's worse problem is not this or that policy, but his tendency to send contradictory messages that confuse markets.
If developing countries could meet these conditions, he wrote, they would be in a position to send foreign aid to the United States!
It responded with massive shelling of southern Israel, and managed to send several missiles toward Tel Aviv and one toward Jerusalem.
But if it becomes a matter of individual worker choice - do I send a check or do I keep the money? - union revenues and membership and power will shrink very rapidly.
Its creation would also send out a new message to the European public: competition alone is not the only thing on Europe's horizon.
The prosecutors have shown little interest in these discrepancies, doing their best to send the alleged conspirators to jail (and keep them there) even before the trial starts.
And US President Barack Obama's decision to send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Burma to meet Thein Sein is another clear sign that the world is ready to end the country's isolation.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
Because Latin American countries enjoy the billions of dollars that their countrymen in the United States send home, they should take note of how many of their benefactors are being treated by American officials.
The threat of cruise-missile strikes last September was enough to send Al Qaeda members in Syria scrambling for the hills.
Persuaded as they are that France should act alone, they would close the economy to foreign competition, suppress financial markets, and send immigrants back to their homelands.
One of the hardest things in central banking is that investors often hear a very different message from that which the central bank intends to send.
For example, Paul De Grauwe of the University of Leuvem has proposed that the European Central Bank should intervene when exchange-rate developments are out of touch with economic reality, in order to send a signal to the markets.
The main failure was that liberalization did not send credible signals about future policies.
Not only did China resist measures that had been under negotiation for the preceding year, but Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's decision to send a low-level official to meet with and point a finger at Obama was downright insulting.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to raise their standard of living as well.
But the OSCE was almost completely powerless during the Kyrgyzstan crisis, and only recently was it finally able to secure agreement to send a small police advisory group there.
And, if the diamond industry can put itself on an ethical footing, it might send a message to other industries that deal in resources that are effectively being stolen from some of the world's poorest people.
I therefore urge all nations, rich and poor, to send their highest-level representatives to Doha with full determination to do what must be done.
In this context, Argentina's rich and powerful vote with their wallets and send their dollars overseas.
Either outcome would mean that the Chief Executive has missed an opportunity to send the right signal that Hong Kong stands for good public governance rather than cronyism.

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