different between send vs airmail

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology

From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.

Verb

send (third-person singular simple present sends, present participle sending, simple past and past participle sent)

1. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.

2. (slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
   • 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,

     The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.

   • 1957, Sam Cooke, "You Send Me",

     Darling you send me / I know you send me

   • 1991, P.M. Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss",

     Baby you send me.

3. To bring to a certain condition.
   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 9

     “I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”

     The other two were silent for a few moments.

     “But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.

4. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 2 Kings vi. 32

     See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

5. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
6. (nautical) To pitch.
7. (climbing, transitive) To make a successful free ascent (i.e. not relying on gear) of a sport climbing route.

Synonyms

• (make something go somewhere): emit, broadcast, mail

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

send (plural sends)

1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
2. (nautical) Alternative form of scend
   • 1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate

     thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west

   • the send of the sea
3. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
4. (Britain, slang) A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.

Anagrams

• Ends, NDEs, dens, ends, neds, sned

Albanian

Alternative forms

• senë (Gheg)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tsjam tam, from Proto-Indo-European *kiom tom, a sequence of two pronouns in neuter of which the first is related to 'se'. Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *t?e enta, literally 'this being', the first element from *kwe- (“how, what”), or *k?(e) (“this”), while the second one being a gerundive or a participle of a disused verb, close to Latin -?ns (participal ending), Medieval Latin being (hence Italian ente (“entity, body, being”)), and Ancient Greek ?? (?n) (present participle).

Noun

send m

1. thing, object

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n/, [s?n?]

Verb

send

1. imperative of sende

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

send

1. imperative of sende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

send (neuter sendt, definite singular and plural sende)

1. past participle of senda and sende

Verb

send

1. imperative of senda and sende

Old Norse

Participle

send

1. inflection of senda:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

send

1. second-person singular active imperative of senda

English

Alternative forms

• air mail

Etymology

air +? mail

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.me?l/

Noun

airmail (countable and uncountable, plural airmails)

1. The system of conveying mail using aircraft.
2. The items of mail so carried.

Translations

Verb

airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)

1. (transitive) To send mail by air.
2. (baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.

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