Send and sent are different forms of the same verb. Because they sound similar, they are sometimes confused. Send /send/ is the base form. If you send something to someone, you arrange for it to be taken and delivered to them, for example by post.
Sent /sent/ is the past tense and -ed participle of send.
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Verb | 1. | send - 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" cast, contrive, throw, project - put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" turn - channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium" turn - to send or let go; "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion" divert - send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one route - send via a specific route refer - send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee" airt, redirect - channel into a new direction; "redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists" blow - cause air to go in, on, or through; "Blow my hair dry" give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, can, force out, displace, fire, dismiss, terminate - terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" send away, send packing, dismiss, drop - stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
2. | send - 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" channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" send in - mail in; cause to be delivered; "Send in your comments" mail out - transmit by mail; "The company mailed out the catalog to all potential customers" | |
3. | send - cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" express - send by rapid transport or special messenger service; "She expressed the letter to Florida" airmail - send or transport by airmail; "Letters to Europe from the U.S. are best airmailed" register - send by registered mail; "I'd like to register this letter" express-mail - send by express mail or courier; "Express-mail the documents immediately" transfer - move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" | |
4. | ![]() move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" barge - transport by barge on a body of water railroad - transport by railroad | |
5. | send - assign to a station garrison - station (troops) in a fort or garrison fort - station (troops) in a fort | |
6. | send - transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" transfer - move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" | |
7. | send - cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" transfer - move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" hospitalise, hospitalize - admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high" | |
8. | ![]() broadcast medium, broadcasting - a medium that disseminates via telecommunications satellite - broadcast or disseminate via satellite sportscast - broadcast a sports event interrogate - transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication rebroadcast, rerun - broadcast again, as of a film |