Send vs Sand - What's the difference?
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To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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)
(label) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see ), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
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, title= A beach or other expanse of sand.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=7, title= Personal courage (used before or around 1920s).
* {{quote-book, year=1979, title=Bendigo Shafter, first=Louis, last=L'Amour
, authorlink=Louis L'Amour, isbn=9780553123548, ol=24369989M
, passage=There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand , that Morrell.}}
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
A single grain of sand.
(label) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
To cover with sand.
In transitive terms the difference between send and sand
is that send is to make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another while sand is to cover with sand.As an adjective sand is
of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.send
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Verb
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- 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.
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(wikipedia sand)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand .}}
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand . […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
- (Shakespeare)
- The sands are numbered that make up my life.
