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. | | | 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 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. | | —Idioms | 18. | send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing. |
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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. | | | 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 fines
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