(send) v. sent, send·ing v.t.
1. To cause or direct to go; dispatch, as a messenger.
2. To cause to be conveyed to another place; transmit; forward: to send a letter.
3. To cause to issue; emit or discharge, as heat, light, smoke, etc.: with forth, out, etc.
4. To throw or drive by force; impel.
5. To cause to come, happen, etc.; grant: God send us peace.
6. To bring into a specified state or condition; drive: The decision sent him into bankruptcy.
7. To transmit, as a current or electromagnetic impulses.
—v.i.
8. To dispatch an agent, messenger, or message.
—to send for To summon by a message or messenger.
—to send in one's papers To resign.
—noun A messenger. [OE sendan]
—send′er noun Synonyms (verb): cast, delegate, depute, discharge, dispatch, dismiss, emit, fling, forward, hurl, impel, lance, launch, project, propel, sling, throw, transmit. Send in its most common use involves personal efficiency without personal presence; according to the adage, “If you want your business done, go; if not, send”; one sends a letter or a bullet, a messenger or a message. To dispatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject. To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within, with no reference to a destination; as, The sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination. Antonyms: bring, carry, convey, get, give, hand, hold, keep, receive, retain.

(send) Naut. noun
1. The flow or impulse of the waves.
2. Scend.
—v.i.
1. To move by the force of waves.
2. To scend. [<SEND¹; prob. infl. in meaning by ASCEND]