Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take or carry from one place to another; transport.
- v. To serve as a medium of transmission for; transmit: wires that convey electricity.
- v. To communicate or make known; impart: "a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension” ( Saki).
- v. Law To transfer ownership of or title to.
- v. Archaic To steal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To carry, bear, or transport.
- To transmit; communicato by transmission; carry or pass along, as to a destination.
- In law, to transfer; pass the title to by deed, assignment, or otherwise: as, to convey lands to a purchaser by bargain and sale.
- To transmit; contain and carry; carry as a medium of transmission: as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
- To impart; communicate through some medium of transmission.
- To steal; lift; purloin.
- To manage; carry on; conduct.
- To trace; derive.
- To steal.
- n. A conveyance or transfer.
- n. An escort; a convoy.
Wiktionary
- v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
- v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- v. law To transfer legal rights (to).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
- v. To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit.
- v. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.
- v. To impart or communicate.
- v. obsolete To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- v. obsolete To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- v. obsolete To accompany; to convoy.
- v. Cant To play the thief; to steal.
WordNet 3.0
- v. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- v. serve as a means for expressing something
- v. transfer to another
- v. make known; pass on, of information
- v. transmit a title or property
- v. take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- v. go or come after and bring or take back
Etymologies
- Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin convio, from via ("way"). Compare convoy. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier, from Medieval Latin conviāre, to escort : Latin com-, com- + via, way. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Neither does the term convey an idea to my understanding of any thing.”
“Q: The big message you are trying to convey is to "slow down.”
“Shortly after, a senior non-commissioned officer, whose name Hickman didn't know, ordered him to convey a code word to a petty officer.”
“The point I tried to convey is that users should have a choice – freedom to decide how and where their data resides and is used.”
“I guess what I am trying to convey is it doesn't matter if Trig is her son or not.”
“What they presumably mean to convey is the idea of something rushing headlong down a street on a dangerously erratic course.”
“The one thing that you DON'T want to convey is that rights can be negotiated away.”
“All that sort of policy would convey is that adherents of those particular religions are also welcome to serve as officers.”
“What the author himself thought or felt or meant to convey is of interest only to his biographer.”
“So the message they want to convey is that Pepsi gives one explosive diarrhea?”
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