convey
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Inflected forms:
form: conveys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conveying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conveyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conveyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move (something) from one place to another.
pos: verb
examples: Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe.
[…] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]
The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers.
gloss: To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
Love they to live that love and honour have.
[…] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,
And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;
It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]
gloss: To communicate; to make known; to portray.
pos: verb
examples: to convey an impression; to convey information
To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.
This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]
I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
gloss: To transfer legal rights (to).
pos: verb
examples: He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
The refrigerator, washer, and dryer do not convey unless it's specifically laid out in the contract.
[…] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.
gloss: To manage with privacy; to carry out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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 […]
I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
gloss: To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
Synonyms: accompany
conduct
escort
Related words: convoy
Derived words: conveyability
conveyable
conveyal
conveyance
conveyee
conveyer
conveyor
misconvey
reconvey
unconveyable
unconveyed
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: نَقَلَ
roman: naqala
lang: Belarusian
word: абво́зіць
roman: abvózicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абве́зці
roman: abvjézci
lang: Bulgarian
word: нося
roman: nosja
lang: Bulgarian
word: прена́сям
roman: prenásjam
lang: Bulgarian
word: превозвам
roman: prevozvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 傳遞 /传递
roman: chuándì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 輸送 /输送
roman: shūsòng
lang: Czech
word: dopravit
lang: Czech
word: přepravit
lang: Dutch
word: overdragen
lang: Finnish
word: välittää
lang: Finnish
word: kuljettaa
lang: French
word: transporter
lang: Galician
word: transportar
lang: Georgian
word: გადატანა
roman: gadaṭana
lang: Georgian
word: გადაყვანა
roman: gadaq̇vana
lang: German
word: befördern
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κομίζω
roman: komízō
lang: Hebrew
word: הוביל
roman: hovíl
lang: Hebrew
word: העביר
roman: he'evír
lang: Hungarian
word: szállít
lang: Irish
word: iompair
lang: Italian
word: trasportare
lang: Japanese
word: 運ぶ
roman: hakobu
lang: Japanese
word: 運搬する
roman: unpan-suru
lang: Māori
word: whakawhiti
lang: Polish
word: przewozić
lang: Polish
word: przewieźć
lang: Portuguese
word: transportar
lang: Romanian
word: transporta
lang: Romanian
word: căra
lang: Russian
word: переноси́ть
roman: perenosítʹ
lang: Russian
word: перенести́
roman: perenestí
lang: Russian
word: перевози́ть
roman: perevozítʹ
lang: Russian
word: перевезти́
roman: pereveztí
lang: Russian
word: транспорти́ровать
roman: transportírovatʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: वहति
roman: vahati
lang: Sicilian
word: purtari
lang: Sicilian
word: traspurtari
lang: Slovak
word: dopraviť
lang: Slovak
word: prepraviť
lang: Spanish
word: trasladar
lang: Spanish
word: transladar
lang: Swedish
word: transportera
lang: Turkish
word: aktarmak