send down

send ¹  (snd)

v. sent (snt), send·ing, sends

v.tr.

1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.

2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.

3.

a. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.

b. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.

c. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.

4.

a. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.

b. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.

5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.

6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.

7.

a. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.

b. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.

v.intr.

1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.

2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.

3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.

Phrasal Verbs:

send down Chiefly British

To suspend or dismiss from a university.

send for

To request to come by means of a message or messenger; summon.

send in

1. To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.

2. Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.

3. To cause (someone) to arrive in or become involved in a particular place or situation: The commander sent in the sappers. It's time to send in the lawyers.

send off

Sports To eject (a player), as from a soccer game, especially for a flagrant violation of the rules.

send up Informal

1. To send to jail: was sent up for 20 years.

2. To make a parody of: "grandiloquently eccentric but witty verbiage . . . that would send up the nastiness of suburban London" (New York).

Idioms:

send flying Informal

To cause to be knocked or scattered about with force: a blow to the table that sent the dishes flying.

send packing

To dismiss (someone) abruptly.

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[Middle English senden, from Old English sendan; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

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sender n.

Synonyms: send¹, dispatch, forward, route, ship, transmit
These verbs mean to cause to go or be taken to a destination: sent the package by parcel post; dispatched a union representative to the factory; forwards the mail to their new address; routed the soldiers through New York; shipped his books to his dormitory; transmits money by cable.

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send ²  (snd)

v. & n. Nautical

Variant of scend.

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send down

vb (tr, adverb) Brit

1. (Social Science / Education) to expel from a university, esp permanently

2. Informal to send to prison

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

send down - suspend temporarily from college or university, in England rusticate debar, suspend - bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

Translations

? send down

vt sep

temperature, prices → fallen lassen; (gradually) → senken

(Brit Univ: = expel) → relegieren

prisoner → verurteilen (for zu)