sending

Multiple Entries:
  send    scend  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
send1

▶verb (past and past part. sent)

• 1 cause to go or be taken or delivered to a particular destination.

  ■ (send someone to) arrange for someone to attend (an institution).

• 2 cause to move sharply or quickly; propel.

• 3 cause to be in a specified state: it nearly sent me crazy.

• 4 informal cause to feel ecstasy or elation.

– phrases
send someone to Coventry chiefly Brit. refuse to associate with or speak to someone. [perh. from the unpopularity of royalist soldiers or prisoners quartered in Coventry (sympathetic to parliament) during the English Civil War.]
send word send a message.

– phrasal verbs
send someone down Brit.

• 1 expel a student from a university.

• 2 informal sentence someone to imprisonment.

send for

• 1 order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.

• 2 order by post.

send someone off (of a soccer or rugby referee) order a player to leave the field and take no further part in the game.
send someone up US sentence someone to imprisonment.
send someone/thing up informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.

– derivatives
sendable adjective,
sender noun.

– origin OE sendan, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
send2

▶noun & verb variant spelling of scend.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scend /sɛnd/ (also send) archaic

▶noun the push or surge created by a wave.

■ a pitching or surging movement in a boat.

▶verb (of a vessel) pitch or surge up in a heavy sea.

– origin C15: alt. of send1 or descend.