Errand vs Send - What's the difference?
errand | send |
A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
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The purpose of such trip.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand' not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their ' errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
To send someone on an errand.
To go on an errand.
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
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, title= (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
* 1947 , (Robertson Davies), (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) , Clarke, Irwin & Co., page 183,
* 1957', (Sam Cooke), ,
* 1991 , , "(Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)",
To bring to a certain condition
* 1913 , ,
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
* Bible, 2 Kings vi. 32
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 20
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) To pitch.
* Totten
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
(nautical)
In transitive terms the difference between errand and send
is that errand is to send someone on an errand while send is to make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.In intransitive terms the difference between errand and send
is that errand is to go on an errand while send is to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.errand
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* fool's errand * lost errandVerb
(en verb)- All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
- She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
Anagrams
* *send
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Verb
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- The train had an excellent whistle which sent' me, just as Sinatra ' sends the bobby-sockers.
- Darling you send' me / I know you ' send me
- Baby you send me.
- “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.
- See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
- God send him well!
- The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
- God send your mission may bring back peace.
- The ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Synonyms
* (make something go somewhere) emit, broadcast, mailDerived terms
* besend * downsend * foresend * forsend * forthsend * insend * missend * offsend * onsend * outsend * oversend * send a message * send around * send away * send back * send down * send for * send in * send off/send-off * send on * send out * send someone packing * send someone to the showers * send to Coventry * send up/send-up * upsendNoun
(en noun)- sends and receives
- The send of the sea. — Longfellow.
