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Convey
Definitions
- 1 To move (something) from one place to another.
"Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe."
- 2 (of information) make known; pass on wordnet
- 3 To take or carry (someone) from one place to another. dated
"Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: Love they to live that love and honour have."
- 4 serve as a means for expressing something wordnet
- 5 To communicate; to make known; to portray.
"to convey an impression; to convey information"
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- 6 go or come after and bring or take back wordnet
- 7 To transfer legal rights (to).
"He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter."
- 8 take something or somebody with oneself somewhere wordnet
- 9 To manage with privacy; to carry out. obsolete
"1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson, I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]"
- 10 transmit or serve as the medium for transmission wordnet
- 11 To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. obsolete
"Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you."
- 12 transmit a title or property wordnet
- 13 transfer to another wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
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