Send OR hand in OR submit my application ?? (2025)

Hello. I'm confuesd by the usage of these words: send, submit, hand in

Should I say:
1. I'm going to submit/send/hand in my application. ??

I think we can say either submit or hand in my application
if we are going to a place and give the application material to someone.

And we say 'send' my application when we want to mail it or e-mail it.

But what about if we are completing an online application form, should we submit it or send it?
I think submit sounds right?

I'm not sure.

Please explain the meanings and usages of these word.
Thanks!

Hello Amber_1010.

If you hand over the application in person, you submit it or hand it in.
If you mail or e-mail it, you submit it or send it.
If you apply online, you also submit or send it.

Basically, if you hand something in, you physically take it somewhere in your hands.

Or does send mean: to be tansproted to a

While submit means : the action of giving something by your hands.
In your given examples?? That's why we can use either submit or send if it's an online applcation or email??

another example:
sumbit your thread, but not 'send'.

Please explain!

In AE, do people use it this way too?
Could you explain a little more about why we can use either send or submit if it's an email?

Thanks!

Amber_1010 said:

While submit means : the action of giving something

by your hands.

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No, read post 2 again. Only "hand" means by hand.

So because an email is considered as 'distance', we can use send.
But it can also be considered as 'submit' because you fill out the form and press the button to email it?
(which is kind of like hand in the form by yourself.)??

however, if we hand it in the form directly to somebody by hands or what we call 'in person' we must use either hand in or submit??

Amber_1010 said:

So because an email is considered as 'distance', we can use send.
But it can also be considered as 'submit' because you fill out the form and press the button to email it?
(which is kind of like hand in the form by yourself.)??

however, if we hand it in the form directly to somebody by hands or what we call 'in person' we must use either hand in or submit??

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Yes, you have understood.