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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONVEY, v.t. [L., to carry; to weigh. See Weigh and Way.]
1. To carry , bear or transport, either by land or water, or in air; as, to convey a letter or a package; to convey goods from England to France.
2. To pass or cause to pass; to transmit; as, to convey a right or an estate from father to son.
3. To transfer; to pass a title to any thing from one person to another, as by deed, assignment or otherwise; as, to convey lands by bargain and sale.
4. To cause to pass; to transmit; to carry, by any medium; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
5. To manage; to carry on. [Not used.]
I will convey the business as I shall find means.
6. To impart; to communicate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (conveyed; conveying) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French conveer to accompany, escort, from Vulgar Latin *conviare, from Latin com- + via way — more at way Date: 14th century 1. obsolete lead, conduct 2. a. to bear from one place to another; especially to move in a continuous stream or mass b. to impart or communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearance <struggling to convey his feelings> c. (1) archaic steal (2) obsolete to carry away secretly d. to transfer or deliver (as property) to another especially by a sealed writing e. to cause to pass from one place or person to another <convey a message>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 transport or carry (goods, passengers, etc.). 2 communicate (an idea, meaning, etc.). 3 Law transfer the title to (property). 4 transmit (sound, smell, etc.). Derivatives: conveyable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF conveier f. med.L conviare (as COM-, L via way)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Convey Con*vey", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conveyed; 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. I will convey them by sea in fleats. --1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. --Shak. 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. 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. The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. --Spenser. 4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. --Locke. 5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.] I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. --Shak. 6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [Obs.] 7. To accompany; to convoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To carry; transport; bear; transmit; trnsfer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Convey Con*vey", v. i. To play the thief; to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. --Marston.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(conveys, conveying, conveyed) 1. To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone. In every one of her pictures she conveys a sense of immediacy... He also conveyed his views and the views of the bureaucracy. = communicate VERB: V n, V n 2. To convey someone or something to a place means to carry or transport them there. (FORMAL) The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate. = transport VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Carry, bear, bring, transmit, transport, waft, fetch. 2. Transfer, alienate, abalienate, consign, demise, devolve, cede, grant, devise, sell, deliver over, make over.

Moby Thesaurus

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