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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Send \Send\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Sending.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G.
     senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. s["a]nda, Dan. sende,
     Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going),
     gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. s[=i]?, Icel. sinni
     a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s?t.
     Cf. Sense.]
     1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission
        or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
  
              I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. --Jer.
                                                    xxiii. 21.
  
              I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I
              of myself, but he sent me.            --John viii.
                                                    42.
  
              Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer
              than the message requires.            --Swift.
  
     2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to
        procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to
        send a message.
  
              He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
                                                    --Esther viii.
                                                    10.
  
              O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
                                                    --Ps. xliii.
                                                    3.
  
     3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send
        a ball, an arrow, or the like.
  
     4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to
        grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
        ``God send him well!'' --Shak.
  
              The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and
              rebuke.                               --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 20.
  
              And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
                                                    --Matt. v. 45.
  
              God send your mission may bring back peace. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Send \Send\, v. i.
     1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or
        to do an errand.
  
              See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take
              away my head?                         --2 Kings vi.
                                                    32.
  
     2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently
        as to endanger her masts. --Totten.
  
     To send for, to request or require by message to come or be
        brought.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Send \Send\, n. (Naut.)
     The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
     [Written also scend.] --W. C. Russell. ``The send of the
     sea''. --Longfellow.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :


  send
       v 1: 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" [syn: direct]
       2: 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" [syn: send out]
       3: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send
          me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when
          it's written" [syn: mail, post]
       4: transport commercially [syn: transport, ship]
       5: assign to a station [syn: station, post, base, place]
       6: transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to
          Russia" [syn: get off, send off]
       7: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After
          the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was
          committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise,
           charge]
       8: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We
          cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, broadcast, beam,
           transmit]
       [also: sent]

From English-Welsh Freedict dictionary :


  send [send]
       anfon

From English-Welsh Freedict dictionary :


  send [send]
       anfon

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary :


  Send
  
  أرسل

From English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary :


  send
  
  baciti, ispuštati, odaslati, odašiljati, otposlati, otpremiti, poslati, pošaljite, predati, slati, uputiti, širiti