v. to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"

v. cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

v. assign to a station

v. transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

v. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

v. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

v. pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

v. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"

v. live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

v. inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"

v. be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

v. send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail"

v. hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

v. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"

v. put into a position that will restore a normal state; "set a broken bone"

v. put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

v. provide housing for (military personnel)

v. provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

v. set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"

v. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

v. move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high"

v. attach to; "affix the seal here"

v. found or ground; "build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"

v. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

v. put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships

v. enter into a contractual arrangement

v. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"

v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

v. provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"

v. fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes"

v. put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"

v. sow by scattering; "scatter seeds"

v. begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

v. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

v. give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"

v. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

v. make a thrusting forward movement

v. hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke

v. swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"

v. move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"

v. stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

v. cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"