{
  "id": "send.communication",
  "term": "send",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "send",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make a message move from one place to another",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "message.information",
      "make.verb",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The act of making causes a message to move through space, connecting source and destination via directed motion.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed information transfer",
      "caused message displacement",
      "sender-receiver linkage"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe sent its first signal from interstellar space in 2012, detected by NASA's Deep Space Network.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, WhatsApp delivered 100 billion encrypted messages per day across 180 countries.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pony Express riders sent mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, averaging 75 miles per day in 1860.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "call.communication",
    "communications.social",
    "fax.communication",
    "feedback.communication",
    "internet.digital",
    "newsletter.communication",
    "phone.electrical",
    "reply.communication"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "send",
    "sending",
    "sends",
    "sent"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'make.verb' and 'space.extent' as constitutive components missing from original record; definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-send.communication"
}