<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.</li><li>Antonyms: receive</li><li>to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter.</li><li>Synonyms: forward, dispatch, transmit</li><li>to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia.</li><li>to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction: to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling.</li><li>Synonyms: project, fling, hurl, cast</li><li>to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle.</li><li>to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village.</li><li>Electricity: to transmit (a signal).</li><li>to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.</li><li>Slang: to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.</li><li>Electricity: to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to distribute; issue.</li><li>to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week.</li><li>to order delivery: We sent out for coffee.</li><li>to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station.</li><li>to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.</li><li>to produce; bear; yield: plants sending forth new leaves.</li><li>to dispatch out of a country as an export.</li><li>to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders.</li><li>to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor.</li><li>to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor.</li><li>British: to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.</li><li>to release or cause to go upward; let out.</li><li>Informal: to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life.</li><li>to expose the flaws or foibles of through parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, or other forms of satire: The new movie sends up merchants who commercialize Christmas.</li></ul>