<B>send, </B>verb, <B>sent,</B> <B>sending,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to go from one place to another. <BR> <I>Ex. to send someone for a doctor. Mother sends my brother on errands.</I> (SYN) dispatch. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to be carried. <BR> <I>Ex. to send good news, to send one's compliments. We sent the letter by airmail.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to cause to come, occur, or be. <BR> <I>Ex. Send help at once. May God send peace. Ah, spring was sent for lass and lad (A. E. Housman).</I> (SYN) bestow. <DD><B> 4. </B>to compel or force to go; drive, impel, or throw. <BR> <I>Ex. to send a ball or an arrow. The blow sent him staggering to a chair. The arrival of the police sent the rioters flying in all directions. The volcano sent clouds of smoke into the air.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to cause (a person) to live in a certain place, engage in certain employment, or the like, for a period of time. <BR> <I>Ex. to send a boy to college, to send a man to Congress.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to refer (a reader) to some author or authority. <BR> <I>Ex. to send a reader to the dictionary.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to cause (something) to go (down, up, or in some other condition). <BR> <I>Ex. The news sent the stock market up.</I> <DD><B> 8a. </B>to transmit (as radio signals). <DD><B> b. </B>to transmit (as a current or electromagnetic wave) by means of pulsation. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Slang.) to excite greatly or inspire, especially by jazz. <BR> <I>Ex. Two pumas snarled savagely at an Irish Jig but Home Sweet Home and Annie Laurie sent them (Cape Times).</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Archaic.) to cause to be or become. <BR> <I>Ex. God send him well! (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) grant. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to send a message or messenger. <BR> <I>Ex. to send for a doctor, to send for a taxi. I have sent every half hour to know how she does (Samuel Richardson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of a ship: <DD><B> a. </B>to lurch forward into the trough of a wave. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=scend.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the driving impulse or force of a wave or waves on a ship. <BR> <I>Ex. The Mayflower ... stood for the open Atlantic, borne on the send of the sea (Longfellow).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a sudden lurch forward of a ship into the trough of a wave. <BR><I>expr. <B>send down,</B> </I>(British.) to expel from a university. <BR> <I>Ex. Another told us that he had been sent down from Oxford before coming to Exeter (Listener).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>send packing,</B> </I>to send away in a hurry; dismiss without delay or formality. <BR> <I>Ex. Sure as fate, we'll send you packing (Robert Browning).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>send up,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>(U.S. Informal.) to send to prison. </I> <I>Ex. They sent that fellow Sparser up for a year (Theodore Dreiser).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(British Slang.) to make a parody on; ridicule; caricature. <BR> <I>Ex. Like Carson, he performs many of the commercials himself, sending many of them up. The harder he attacks a product, the more it is likely to sell the next morning (Listener).</I> </DL>
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<B>Sendai virus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a paramyxovirus that induces rapid fusion of different types of cells. </DL>
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<B>sendal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thin, rich silk fabric used during the Middle Ages. <DD><B> 2. </B>a garment made of it. </DL>
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<B>sender, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that sends. <DD><B> 2. </B>a transmitter, as in telegraphy. </DL>
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<B>send-off, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a friendly demonstration in honor of a person setting out on a journey, course, career, etc. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) a start (favorable or unfavorable) given to a person or thing. <BR> <I>Ex. Each of these groups sent representatives today to a press conference ... to give the new bill a send-off (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>send-up, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) a parody or caricature; burlesque; take-off. <BR> <I>Ex. It [the book] is a splendidly detached send-up of the brainy female (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>Seneca, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cas</B> or <B>-ca.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of American Indians, living mainly in western New York State. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Iroquoian language of this tribe. </DL>
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<B>Senecan, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Seneca (4 B.C.?-A.D. 65), a Roman Stoic philosopher, and the tragedies written by him and his imitators. </DL>
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<B>Seneca snakeroot,</B> <B>=senega.</B></DL>
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<B>senecio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-os.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> groundsel; ragwort. </DL>
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<B>senega, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the dried root of a milkwort of eastern North America, used medicinally as an expectorant; rattlesnake root. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant itself. </DL>
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<B>Senegalese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ese.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Senegal, a republic in western Africa, its people, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Senegal. <DD><B> 2. </B>their language. </DL>
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<B>Senegambian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with both Senegal and Gambia. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with Senegambia, a region in western Africa between the Senegal and Gambia rivers. </DL>
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<B>senescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fact or condition of growing old. <BR> <I>Ex. Senescence begins, and middle age ends, the day your descendants outnumber your friends (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>senescent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> growing old; beginning to show old age. </DL>
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<B>seneschal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a steward in charge of a royal palace or a nobleman's estate in the Middle Ages. Seneschals often had the powers of judges or generals. </DL>
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<B>seneschalship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the office of seneschal. </DL>
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<B>sengi</B> or <B>senghi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gi</B> or <B>-ghi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of money in the Zaire Republic (the former Democratic Republic of the Congo) worth 1/100 of a likuta. </DL>
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<B>senhor, </B>noun, pl. <B>senhores.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Portuguese.) <DD><B> 1. </B>Mr. or sir. <DD><B> 2. </B>a gentleman. </DL>
<B>senile, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or belonging to old age. <DD><B> 2. </B>showing the weakness often characteristic of old age; characterized by senility. <BR> <I>Ex. a senile condition.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>caused by old age. <BR> <I>Ex. senile diseases.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Geology.) having reached an advanced stage of erosion; made flat or level, as by the action of water or wind. <BR> <I>Ex. a senile valley.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a senile person. adv. <B>senilely.</B> </DL>
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<B>senile psychosis</B> or <B>dementia,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mental disorder caused by atrophy of the brain due to old age, characterized by loss of memory, depression, confusion, delusions, and irrational behavior. </DL>
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<B>senility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the mental and physical weakness often characteristic of old age; dotage. <DD><B> 2. </B>old age. <BR> <I>Ex. He is yet in green and vigorous senility (Charles Lamb).</I> </DL>
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<B>senior, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>the older (used of a father whose son has the same given name). <BR> <I>Ex. John Parker, Senior, is the father of John Parker, Junior.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) Sr. <DD><B> 2. </B>older or elder. <BR> <I>Ex. a senior citizen, senior children.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>higher in rank or longer in service. <BR> <I>Ex. a senior officer, a senior editor. Mr. Jones is the senior member of the firm of Jones and Brown. Thus, usually a more senior person such as a professor or reader finds it much easier to get assistance than does a young lecturer with a bright idea (Listener).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the students of a graduating class. <BR> <I>Ex. the senior class, the senior year.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an older person. <BR> <I>Ex. He is his brother's senior by two years.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person of higher rank or longer service. <DD><B> 3. </B>a student who is a member of the graduating class of a high school or college. <DD><B> 4. </B>a graduate or faculty member in an English university who assists in the college government. </DL>
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<B>senior high school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a school attended after junior high school. It usually has grades 10, 11, and 12. </DL>
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<B>seniority, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition or fact of being older; superiority in age or standing. <BR> <I>Ex. He felt that two years' seniority gave him the right to advise his brother.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>priority or precedence in office or service. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) the body of seniors of a college or public school. </DL>
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<B>senior master sergeant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force ranking next below a chief master sergeant and next above a master sergeant. </DL>
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<B>senior optime,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) an optime placed in the second class. </DL>
<A NAME="seniorschool">
<B>senior school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Great Britain) a school for pupils from 14 to 17 years of age. </DL>
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<B>seniti, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ti.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of money in Tonga worth 1/100 of a pa'anga. </DL>
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<B>senna, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a laxative extracted from the dried leaves or pods of any of several cassia plants. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dried leaves of any of these plants. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of a group of plants of the pea family; cassia, or a plant of the same genus which is similar to it. </DL>
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<B>senna family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a former grouping of plants now classified as a subfamily of the pea family. </DL>
