Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

* (1796-1859)

*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

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Verb

To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.

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(slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).

* 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,

The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.

* 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,

Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me

* 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",

Baby you send me.

To bring to a certain condition

* 1913 , ,

“I suppose,” blurted Clara suddenly, “she wants a man.”

The other two were silent for a few moments.

“But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,” said Paul.

To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

* Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

* Shakespeare

God send him well!

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

* Sir Walter Scott

God send your mission may bring back peace.

(nautical) To pitch.

* Totten

The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.