Convey
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
convey
v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the
message to me"
2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of
Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of
anger" [syn: {carry}, {convey}, {express}]
3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: {convey},
{transmit}, {communicate}]
4: transmit a title or property
5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
"Many metals conduct heat" [syn: {impart}, {conduct},
{transmit}, {convey}, {carry}, {channel}]
6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me
the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the
boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: {bring},
{convey}, {take}]
7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books
over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog
fetched the hat" [syn: {bring}, {get}, {convey}, {fetch}]
[ant: {bear away}, {bear off}, {carry away}, {carry off},
{take away}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Convey \Con*vey"\ (k[o^]n*v[=a]"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Conveyed} (k[o^]n*v[=a]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conveying}.]
[OF. conveir, convoier, to escort, convoy, F. convoyer, LL.
conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See {Viaduct}, {Voyage}, and
cf. {Convoy}.]
1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
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I will convey them by sea in floats. --1 Kings v.
9.
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Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. --Shak.
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2. 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; as, air conveys sound;
words convey ideas.
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3. 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.
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The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his
lands to feoffees in trust. --Spenser.
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4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to
convey information.
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Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound,
but convey not thereby their thoughts. --Locke.
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5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.]
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I . . . will convey the business as I shall find
means. --Shak.
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6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
[Obs.]
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7. To accompany; to convoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Syn: To carry; transport; bear; transmit; transfer.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "convey":
abalienate, alien, alienate, amortize, articulate, assign, barter,
bear, bequeath, break, breathe, broadcast, buck, canalize, carry,
cede, channel, channelize, chime, chorus, come out with, commit,
communicate, conduct, confer, consign, deed, deed over, deliver,
demise, devolve upon, disclose, disseminate, emit, enfeoff,
enunciate, exchange, express, ferry, fling off, fly, formulate,
freight, funnel, get across, get over, give, give expression,
give out with, give title to, give tongue, give utterance,
give voice, give word, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, hump,
impart, leave word, let out, lift, lip, lug, make known, make over,
manhandle, negotiate, out with, pack, pass, pass along, pass on,
pass over, phonate, phrase, pipe, pour forth, present, project,
pronounce, put across, put forth, put in words, put through, raise,
relegate, remise, render, report, say, sell, send, send word,
set forth, settle, settle on, share, share with, sign away,
sign over, signal, siphon, sound, surrender, take, tell, throw off,
tote, trade, traject, transfer, transmit, transport, trench,
turn over, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, waft, whisk, whisper,
wing, word
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