sending in

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Please, dear teachers and friends

Couldyou shed some light on this?

SEND
v.tr.
1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3. a. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
b. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
c. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.

4. a. To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue: a stove that sends forth great warmth.
b. To utter or otherwise emit (sound): sent forth a cry of pain.

5. To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive: The batter sent the ball to left field. The slap on my back sent me staggering.
6. To cause to take place or occur: We will meet whatever vicissitudes fate may send.
7. a. To put or drive into a given state or condition: horrifying news that sent them into a panic.
b. Slang To transport with delight; carry away: That music really sends me.


v.intr.
1. To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message: Let's send out for hamburgers.
2. To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail: send away for a new catalogue.
3. To transmit a message or messages: The radio operator was still sending when the ship went down.

Phrasal verb:
SEND IN:
1. To cause to arrive or to be delivered to the recipient: Let's send in a letter of protest.
2. Sports To put (a player) into or back into a game or contest: The coach is sending in the kicker.
3. To cause (someone) to arrive in or become involved in a particular place or situation: The commander sent in the sappers. It's time to send in the lawyers.

Bottom line is... what's the difference between 'send' and 'send in'?

What's the difference between these?
Let's send in a letter of protest.
Let's send a letter of protest.

Thanks

[RonBee]

"Send in" is only used in certain circumstances. For example, maybe you have some dancers waiting in the wings, then on cue you send them in to perform.

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[Offroad]

hmmm... it sounds like 'send in' is used in circumstances that requires urgency, it's used to solve a problem, "try it and see what happens (even if you already know what is going to happen)".

OK, what about 'wire'? I am wiring you some money today.
Does it mean I am fastening the process by sending the money electronically?

Is it formal? I guess not.

Thanks

[RonBee]

hmmm... it sounds like 'send in' is used in circumstances that requires urgency, it's used to solve a problem, "try it and see what happens (even if you already know what is going to happen)".

You hold something in reserve until it is needed. Then you send it in. (Definitions 2 & 3)

OK, what about 'wire'? I am wiring you some money today.
Does it mean I am fastening the process by sending the money electronically?

Is it formal? I guess not.

The money is sent directly from one account to another.

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1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane

This is the only one of the sentences that I think is not correct. It should be to ship, mail, deliver, not necessarily by plane.
You can hand deliver something via a personal courier, use the postal service, ship via an actual ship, deliver via a commecial messenger service, or have something flown to the destination. They are all an intermediary.

I am not a teacher.

[Offroad]

You hold something in reserve until it is needed. Then you send it in. (Definitions 2 & 3)
easier now

The money is sent directly from one account to another.

Thanks Ron!

[Offroad]

1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane

This is the only one of the sentences that I think is not correct. It should be to ship, mail, deliver, not necessarily by plane.
You can hand deliver something via a personal courier, use the postal service, ship via an actual ship, deliver via a commecial messenger service, or have something flown to the destination. They are all an intermediary.

I am not a teacher.

What do you mean?
As far as I know, to convey = transport, thus whether someone have someone one to drop off something somewhere, he/she is practicing the act of sending.

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What do you mean?
As far as I know, to convey = transport, thus whether someone have someone one to drop off something somewhere, he/she is practicing the act of sending.

You are right in that, of course, but it is not necessarily by plane.

It occurred to me after I had posted, that the question was possibly just to give one meaning of to convey, in which case to send by plane is correct. I was just giving other modes of transporting.

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just in case you havent noticed yet, the sentences in blue and green are just examples, therefore it could be anything, an aeroplane, a ferry, a boat, even a goat.
Kidding, thanks for posting.

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Possibly a carrier pigeon!