Что (кто) такое Send - определение
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SEND; Send (disambiguation)
send
(sends, sending, sent)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
When you send someone something, you arrange for it to be taken and delivered to them, for example by post.
Myra Cunningham sent me a note thanking me for dinner...
I sent a copy to the minister for transport...
He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card...
Sir Denis took one look and sent it back...
More than half a million sheep are sent from Britain to Europe for slaughter every year.
VERB: V n n, V n to n, V n, V n with adv, be V-ed from n
2.
If you send someone somewhere, you tell them to go there.
Inspector Banbury came up to see her, but she sent him away...
...the government's decision to send troops to the region...
I suggested that he rest, and sent him for an X-ray...
Reinforcements were being sent from the neighbouring region..
VERB: V n with adv, V n to n, V n for n, be V-ed from n
3.
If you send someone to an institution such as a school or a prison, you arrange for them to stay there for a period of time.
It's his parents' choice to send him to a boarding school, rather than a convenient day school...
VERB: V n to n
4.
To send a signal means to cause it to go to a place by means of radio waves or electricity.
The transmitters will send a signal automatically to a local base station...
...in 1989, after a 12-year journey to Neptune, the space probe Voyager sent back pictures of Triton, its moon.
VERB: V n to n, V n with adv
5.
If something sends things or people in a particular direction, it causes them to move in that direction.
The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway...
The slight back and forth motion sent a pounding surge of pain into his skull.
VERB: V n -ing, V n prep
6.
To send someone or something into a particular state means to cause them to go into or be in that state.
My attempt to fix it sent Lawrence into fits of laughter.
...before civil war and famine sent the country plunging into anarchy...
An obsessive search for our inner selves, far from saving the world, could send us all mad.
VERB: V n into n, V n -ing, V n adj
7.
Send
·noun The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
II. Send ·vi To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an Errand.
III. Send ·vi To Pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
IV. Send ·vt To cause to go in any manner; to Dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
V. Send ·vt To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
send
send1
¦ verb (past and past participle sent)
1. cause to go or be taken or delivered to a particular destination.
(send someone to) arrange for someone to attend (an institution).
2. cause to move sharply or quickly; propel.
3. cause to be in a specified state: it nearly sent me crazy.
4. informal cause to feel ecstasy or elation.
Phrases
send someone to Coventry chiefly Brit. refuse to associate with or speak to someone. [perh. from the unpopularity of royalist soldiers or prisoners quartered in Coventry (sympathetic to parliament) during the English Civil War.]
send word send a message.
Phrasal verbs
send someone down Brit.
1. expel a student from a university.
2. informal sentence someone to imprisonment.
send for
1. order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.
2. order by post.
send someone off (of a soccer or rugby referee) order a player to leave the field and take no further part in the game.
send someone up US sentence someone to imprisonment.
send someone/thing up informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.
Derivatives
sendable adjective
sender noun
Origin
OE sendan, of Gmc origin.
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send2
¦ noun & verb variant spelling of scend.
Примеры произношения для Send
1. Send.
How to Live a 'Start-Up' Life _ Arthur Brooks _ Talks at Google
2. Send.
A New Age of Legal Representation _ Kimberley Motley _ Talks at Google
3. send-- cabbages do they send you?
Without You, There Is No Us _ Suki Kim _ Talks at Google
4. to send and slow to send.
Children of the Sky _ Vernor Vinge _ Talks at Google
5. Send me.' "
Untold Extraordinary Miltary Service Stories _ Talks at Google
Примеры употребления для Send
1. "He‘d send me a list, and I‘d send him 20 CDs at a time," says Ms.
2. "We are telling the council... don‘t send the United Nations if you don‘t want to but if you send it, send it with the right tools," he said.
3. "Iowans, don‘t just send them a message next January; send them a president," he said.
4. "When they send the bulldozers, they send the crack police force with them.
5. "They send the Israelis smart bombs and they send us blankets.