Send Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college. |
| 2. | to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter. |
| 3. | to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | to emit, discharge, or utter (usually fol. by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle. |
| 6. | to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village. |
| 7. | Electricity. | a. | to transmit (a signal). |
| b. | to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses. |
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| 8. | Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her. |
–verb (used without object) | 9. | to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc. |
| 10. | Electricity. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies. |
—Verb phrases| 11. | send down, British. to expel, esp. from Oxford or Cambridge. |
| 12. | send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor. |
| 13. | send forth, | a. | to produce; bear; yield: plants sending
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forth new leaves. |
| b. | to dispatch out of a country as an export. |
| c. | to issue, as a publication: They have sent forth a report to the stockholders. |
| d. | to emit or discharge: The flowers sent forth a sweet odor. |
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| 14. | send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station. |
| 15. | send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office. |
| 16. | send out,
| b. | to send on the way; dispatch: They sent out their final shipment last week. |
| c. | to order delivery: We sent out for coffee. |
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| 17. | send up, | a. | to release or cause to go upward; let out. |
| b. | Informal. to sentence or send to prison: He was convicted and sent up for life. |
| c. | 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. |
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—Idioms| 18. | send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing. |
| 19. | send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness. |
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Flowers Definition–noun | 1. | the blossom of a plant. |
| 2. | Botany. | a. | the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. |
| b. | an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses. |
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| 3. | a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty. |
| 4. | state of efflorescence or bloom: Peonies were in flower. |
| 5. | an ornament representing a flower. |
| 6. | Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, esp. a stylized floral design, often used in a line to decorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings. |
| 7. | an ornament or adornment. |
| 8. | the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England. |
| 9. | the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American
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youth. |
| 10. | the finest or choicest product or example. |
| 11. | flowers, (used with a singular verb ) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, esp. as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur. |
–verb (used without object) | 12. | to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom. |
| 13. | to come out into full development; mature. |
–verb (used with object) | 14. | to cover or deck with flowers. |
| 15. | to decorate with a floral design. |
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Canada Definition–noun Chiefly Western U.S.
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The responsibility of borrowing
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Where do I send flowers? ... They are spin. How is it countries like Australia and Canada have entered this recession with budget surpluses?
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... which is sure to send tingles down readers' spines. The Unexplained: A Haunted Canada Book ... racecar, monster, basket of flowers, birdhouse
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A world of fright
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But the plummeting temperatures and expanding nights do send a shiver up ... Cheerful golden cempazúchil flowers abound, and ovens are fired up ...
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