Convey

/kənˈveɪ/ · verb

Meaning

To move (something) from one place to another..

Definitions by Sense

1. To move (something) from one place to another.
2. (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
3. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
4. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
5. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
6. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

Example Sentences

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.

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 […]

to convey an impression; to convey information

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Word Forms

• conveys
• conveying
• conveyed

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