Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take or carry from one place to another; transport. synonym: carry.
- transitive verb To serve as a medium of transmission for; transmit.
- transitive verb To communicate or make known; impart.
- transitive verb Law To transfer ownership of or title to.
- transitive verb Archaic To steal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A conveyance or transfer.
- noun An escort; a convoy.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Cant To play the thief; to steal.
- transitive verb To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To impart or communicate.
- transitive verb obsolete To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- transitive verb obsolete To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- transitive verb obsolete To accompany; to convoy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
transport ; tocarry ; totake from one place to another. - verb To
communicate ; to makeknown ; toportray . - verb law To
transfer legal rights (to).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- verb serve as a means for expressing something
- verb transfer to another
- verb make known; pass on, of information
- verb transmit a title or property
- verb take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- verb go or come after and bring or take back
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Neither does the term convey an idea to my understanding of any thing.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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Q: The big message you are trying to convey is to "slow down."
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Shortly after, a senior non-commissioned officer, whose name Hickman didn't know, ordered him to convey a code word to a petty officer.
Raw Story 2010
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Shortly after, a senior non-commissioned officer, whose name Hickman didn't know, ordered him to convey a code word to a petty officer.
Raw Story 2010
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Shortly after, a senior non-commissioned officer, whose name Hickman didn't know, ordered him to convey a code word to a petty officer.
Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines Daniel Tencer - Raw Story 2010
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Shortly after, a senior non-commissioned officer, whose name Hickman didn't know, ordered him to convey a code word to a petty officer.
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I guess what I am trying to convey is it doesn't matter if Trig is her son or not.
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What they presumably mean to convey is the idea of something rushing headlong down a street on a dangerously erratic course.
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The one thing that you DON'T want to convey is that rights can be negotiated away.
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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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.
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