send

Less common meanings

4. 4
   screen buttonnoununcountable

   An on-screen icon, usually labeled "Send," that one clicks or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.

   He hovered over send for a moment before finally clicking it.

   The new layout moves send to the bottom-right corner of the window.

   UsageUsually with no article: hit send, press send, click send.

5. 5
   data operationnouncountable

   An operation in which data is transmitted from one point to another.

   The logs record every send and receive between the two servers.

   A failed send will be retried automatically after a short delay.

   UsageOften paired with receive: sends and receives, a failed send.

   Similartransmission

   Oppositereceive

   Note

   Tara M. Madhyastha's A Portable System for Data Sonification (1992) notes "bursts of sends" early in a program's run. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Tara M. Madhyastha wrote A Portable System for Data Sonification in 1992; its original title page confirms the year. researchgate.net
   • The work describes bursts of sends at the beginning of an application's execution. researchgate.net
6. 6
   make ecstaticverbslangtransitive

   To fill someone with excitement, delight, or rapture; to thrill.

   The way she plays the piano just sends me every time.

   Old Motown records still send my grandmother, and she dances around the kitchen.

   UsageThe thrilled person is the object: this music really sends me. No destination or resulting state is needed.

   Similarthrill, excite, electrify, rouse, exhilarate

   Oppositebore

   Note

   Robertson Davies's The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947) has a train whistle that sent the fictional diarist "just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers." Sam Cooke made the line a title with "You Send Me" (1957), and P.M. Dawn echoed it in 1991. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 4 facts

   • Robertson Davies wrote The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, first published in 1947. openlibrary.org
   • Sam Cooke released a song titled You Send Me in 1957. abkco.com
   • P.M. Dawn used the line 'you send me' in Set Adrift on Memory Bliss. en.wiktionary.org
   • P.M. Dawn's Set Adrift on Memory Bliss was released in 1991. en.wikipedia.org
7. 7
   verbarchaictransitive

   (of God, fate, or heaven) To cause something to happen to someone, whether good or bad; to grant a blessing or inflict a misfortune.

   Like fate dropping a hardship onto an entire town.

   Ancient texts warn that the gods send plagues upon the wicked.

   The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

   1611, The Holy Bible, King James Version

   UsagePatterns include send someone a blessing and send a plague on/upon someone. The upon pattern can give writing a biblical tone.

   Note

   This is the vocabulary of divine judgment: the sender is God or providence, and what arrives is usually a curse or punishment, though a blessing can be sent too. It takes send something upon someone, as in the King James Bible of 1611: "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke." William Jay Youmans, in the hygiene chapters he added to Thomas Huxley's physiology textbook, set "sent" in scare quotes to doubt that diseases come as judgments.

8. 8
   go for itverbslangtransitive

   To pursue a course of action with full commitment and enthusiasm, often recklessly.

   They sent it on the final descent, ignoring every warning sign.

   Let's forget the careful plan and just send it on the last run.

   UsageMost often in the fixed phrase send it.

   Note

   @JeffSullivan__ on Twitter (2024) praises "Sending it and seeing what happens." The verb can also take a real object. Trevor Rainbolt (2025), weighing a guess, says that in a two-second round he would have "instant-sent Spain," meaning he would have committed to it without a second thought. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 3 facts

   • A 2024 Twitter post by @JeffSullivan__ approvingly includes the quoted words. en.wiktionary.org
   • The Sullivan quotation has the stated wording and approving context. en.wiktionary.org
   • In 2025 Trevor Rainbolt used “instant-sent Spain” while discussing the guess he would make with two seconds available. en.wiktionary.org
9. 9
   verb

   To complete a climbing route from start to finish without falling.
10. 10
    noun

    A clean, successful climb of a route or boulder problem, in any style of climbing, completed without falling.
11. 11
    verbSingapore

    To give someone a ride, driving them to another place.
12. 12
    verbslangUK

    To call out or insult a particular person within a diss track.
13. 13
    nounslangUK

    A callout or insult usually aimed at a specific person, often taking the form of a diss track.
14. 14
    verbslangNigeria

    To care or be bothered about something, used mostly in the negative.
15. 15
    verbrare

    Of a ship, to pitch or plunge, the bow rising and falling sharply in heavy seas.
16. 16
    noundialectalScotland

    A messenger, particularly one dispatched to bring the bride to the wedding.