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  1. transitive verb To take or carry from one place to another; transport.
  2. transitive verb To serve as a medium of transmission for; transmit: wires that convey electricity.
  3. transitive verb To communicate or make known; impart: "a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension” (Saki).
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  • Ultimately, what I want the logo to convey is my company's ability to find beauty and inspiration in places that most people wouldn't think to look. —  GetAFreelancer.com New Projects
  • The feeling I tried to convey was the sense of timelessness. —  Blue Heaven
  • "Most satisfying are Ehle and Northam, who seem magically to emanate from an earlier century, and convey -- in a touch, a glance, or fingers unlacing stays -- what a novel might manage in 50 pages." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Kolo -- convey an almost hallucinatory exuberance, a spirit of abandon and virility that the oncoming political "hordes" of 1935-1937, the rise of Fascism, could never quell. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • The apartheid analysis enables us to provide a legal and conceptual framework under which we can understand, convey, and take action in support of the Palestinian people and their struggle as a unified whole. —  GlobalResearch.ca
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convey:   conveyed ·  conveying ·  conveys
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier, from Medieval Latin conviāre, to escort : Latin com-, com- + via, way; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English conveyen, conveien, from Old French conveier, also convoier, French convoyer (later northern Middle English convoien, English convoy, q. v.) = Spanish convoyar = Portuguese comboiar = Italian conviare (obsolete), from Middle Latin conviare accompany on the way, from Latin com-, together, + via = English way.
  2. from convey, v. Cf. convoy, n.
 

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