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SEND FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Order, request, or command to come
Example:
Call the police!
Synonyms:
call; send for
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "send for" is one way to...):
enjoin; order; say; tell (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority)
Verb group:
call (order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role)
call (call a meeting; invite or command to meet)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "send for"):
cite; summon; summons (call in an official matter, such as to attend court)
beep (call, summon, or alert with a beeper)
call back; recall (summon to return)
call in (summon to a particular activity or employment)
lift (call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs)
muster (call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.)
hail (call for)
summon (ask to come)
call up; mobilise; mobilize; rally (call to arms; of military personnel)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
Sam cannot send for Sue
Context examples:
It is now ten; I must go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before midnight, when we shall send for the police.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You come to my shop, came the reply, an' I'll send for the police.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the morning you will send for a hansom, desiring your man to take neither the first nor the second which may present itself.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A mere suicide would not have caused him to send for me.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Anne will send for me if anything is the matter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Well, in a year or two I'll send for you, and we'll dig in the Forum for relics, and carry out all the plans we've made so many times.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Send for ropes, Massa Malone.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, Mr. Von Bork, you will go with us in a quiet, sensible fashion to Scotland Yard, whence you can send for your friend, Baron Von Herling, and see if even now you may not fill that place which he has reserved for you in the ambassadorial suite.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would send for me in the morning; I should be gone.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I am only taking one change of dress; Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for it, for it may be that ...
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
