sent
For the verb: "to send"
| Simple Past: | sent |
| Past Participle: | sent |
sent send
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sent1
past and past participle of send1.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sent2 /ˈsɛnt/
▶noun a monetary unit of Estonia, equal to one hundredth of a kroon.
– origin respelling of cent.
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.
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.
send someone up US sentence someone to imprisonment.
send someone/thing up informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.
send someone down Brit.
- 1 expel a student from a university.
- 2 informal sentence someone to imprisonment.
- 1 order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.
- 2 order by post.
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.
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.
'sent' also found in these Oxford entries:
advance
- all-points bulletin
- ambassador
- assassin
- asynchronous
- cablegram
- cc
- cent
- come
- compliment
- compliments slip
- contingent
- cookie
- corner
- correspondence
- Coventry
- covering letter
- curriculum vitae
- DDos
- delegate
- destination
- detach
- detachment
- diplomatic bag
- dispatch
- email
- embassy
- emissary
- encyclical
- flame
- go
- goal
- greetings card
- guppy
- heaven-sent
- heliogram
- incoming
- invoice
- junk mail
- kanban
- letter
- mail
- mail bomb
- mailer
- mailing
- mailshot
- mission
- missionary
- nightwatchman
- note

