Convey

Definition: Convey

Convey

Verb

1. Make known; pass on, of information.

2. Serve as a means for expressing something: "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot af anger".

3. Transfer to another; "communicate a disease".

4. (law) transmit a title or property.

5. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat".

6. Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; also metaphorical, as in "This brings me to the main point".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "convey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Finance

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Convey

Imagination

Verb: mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; (latency); declare; (affirm).

Information

Let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.

Stealing

Convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize; (lay violent hands on).

Transfer

Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange).

Transference

Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export.

Crosswords: Convey

Warren, that's not the message we're trying to convey with the Sharing Song. (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli)

Or ah, or, let's say I wanna convey that I've just done something evil. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

That makes you feel that I'll convey (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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References

• The World Market for Glass Containers Used to Convey or Pack Goods, Glass Stoppers and Closures, and Glass Inners for Vacuum Vessels: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Little Bow Project/Highwood Diversion Plan application to construct a water management project to convey and store water diverted from the Highwood River : report of the NRCB/CEAA Joint Review Panel Applicationn #9601, Alberta Public Works, Supply and Ser (reference)

• To Convey Intelligence: The Spectator, 1928-1998 (reference)

• Ward Valley Land Transfer Act : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 2151, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in the state of Cal (reference)

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Television can convey a particularly vivid health message, but ... sets are rare outside the large towns. / UNESCO/WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Should a robber break into my house, and with a dagger at my throat make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title, by his sword, has an unjust conqueror, who forces me into submission. (Second Treatise of Government)

Germany undertakes to prohibit and repress by seizure and by other appropriate remedies the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in its territory of all goods bearing upon themselves or their usual get-up or wrappings any marks, names, devices, or description whatsoever which are calculated to convey directly or indirectly a false indication of the origin, type, nature, or special characteristics of such goods. (reference)

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She was to convey Harriet, and they drove to the Crown in good time, the Randalls party just sufficiently before them.

After what it had calculated to ten significant decimal places as being the precise length of pause most likely to convey a general contempt for all things mattressy, the robot continued to walk round in tight circles.

Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation.

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Health

The effectiveness of genetic testing can be judged in terms of its ability to convey information that patients find useful. (references)

This brochure is designed to convey the latest information on the diagnosis, course, and possible treatment of MS, as well as highlights of current research. (references)

Hormones and other chemicals such as neuropeptides, which convey messages among nerve cells, have been found also to "speak" to cells of the immune system�and some immune cells even manufacture typical neuropeptides. (references)

Economic History

Peru

Air transportation is the only means to convey goods to many areas not served by the Pan American or Central Highways. (references)

China

U.S. educational organizations can also vend teaching materials and equipment, convey the latest methodologies and case studies, lend or exchange faculty, and provide educational consulting services. (references)

China

President Clinton visited China in June 1998. He traveled extensively in China, and direct interaction with the Chinese people included live speeches and a radio show, allowing the President to convey first hand to the Chinese people a sense of American ideals and values. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Casual dress may convey a casual attitude, especially to European-trained Nigerians. (references)

South Africa

It is illegal to convey foreign currency to anyone else and Dollars may not be used in commercial or other private transactions. (references)

Women

Tunisia

Either the mother or father may convey citizenship to a child. (references)

Worker Rights

Nepal

These groups commonly use leaflets, comic books, films, speaker programs, and skits to convey antitrafficking messages and education. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "convey": convey a message ♦ convey across ♦ convey greetings ♦ convey into safety ♦ convey thanks ♦ convey the knowledge of. Additional references.

Afrikaans

oordra (hand, hand over, pass, spend), inlewer (deliver, furnish, hand, hand over, pass, supply). (various references)

Albanian

transportoj (carry, dray, float, freight, move, portage, ship, take place, transfer, transport), shpie (bring, carry, drive, give a lift, keep, lead, lead up, send), përçoj (conduct, herd), njoftoj (advertise, advertize, advise, announce, break, communicate, cry, give out, inform, instruct, message, nark, notify, page, placard, post, report, tell), bart (carry forward, haul). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقل ملكية, ‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏سرق (crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏أبلغ (announce, communicate, denounce, notify, report). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съобщавам (advertise, advertize, announce, apprise, apprize, communicate, impart, inform, let know, notify, post, report, tell), казвам (bid, call, observe, put to, say, state, tell, utter), возя (ride, tool, trundle), прехвърлям (alienate, assign, deed, devolve, heave, surmount, transfer), прекарвам (have, lead, pass, pass away, pilot, reside, run, spend, spin out, take over, wheel), превозвам (bear, freight, put across, ship, transport, wheel), пренасям (carry, carry over, freight, transport), предавам (carry, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), придвижвам (further, help forward, help on), изразявам (articulate, carve, clothe, conceive, couch, express, import, phrase, put, render, signify). (various references)

Chinese 

轉�" (communicate, pass on), 转达 (Conveyed, Conveying), 傳�" . (various references)

Czech

vyřídit (bowl over, carry out, catch out, deal with, execute, transact, transmit), vést (administer, captain, carry on, channel, conduce, conduct, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, wage, walk, wheel), tlumoèit (act as interpreter, interpret), sdìlit (advise, break, communicate, impart, open, tell), rozvádìt, přepravit (haul, transport), předat (bequeath, hand down, hand over, impart, pass on, refer, transmit), dopravit (carry, fly, fly in, get, haul, transport). (various references)

Danish

en groeft der anvendes som recipient,tjener den overjordiske afledning af vand fra vejarealet (drainage ditches/channels/ convey surface water away from the road area). (various references)

Dutch

afdragen (hand, hand over, pass, use up, wear out), aanreiken (hand, hand over, pass, spend), aangeven (accord, accuse, declare, denounce, give, hand, hand over, indicate, pass, point out, register, show, spend, state, suggest). (various references)

Esperanto

transdoni (hand, hand over, pass), alveturigi (bring, supply). (various references)

Farsi 

نقل کردن (Relate, Tell, Transcribe), حمل کردن (Bear, Carry, Freight, Haul, Port, Porter, Transport, Wage), رساندن (Broadcast, Extend, Forward, Give, Impart, Imply, Putin, Supply, Transmit, Understand), بردن (Abstract, Bear, Carry, Conduct, Drive, Horse, Lead, Pack, Port, Portage, Propel, Remove, Snatch, Steer, Take, Transport, Win). (various references)

Finnish

viedä (bring, carry, deprive, lead, require, take), välittää (act as an intermediary, arrange supply, care, connect, mediate, mind, negotiate, pay attention, provide, relay, transmit), siirtää (assign, carry forward, dislodge, displace, endorse, graft, hand over, make ... over, move, remove, shift, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport), luovuttaa (cede, deliver, extradite, give up, hand over, make over, relinquish, resign, surrender, transfer, yield), kuljettaa (carry, haul, transport), antaa (accord, afford, allow, give, hand pass on, issue, jättää pantiksi, leave as a pledge, let, lodge as a security, make out, pledge, present, render, to give, yield), ajaa (carry, drive, go, hunt, ride, take, travel). (various references)

French

communiquer (communicate), voler, vider (core), transporter, transmettre (communicate), soustraire, informer (come, communicate), amener. (various references)

Frisian

oanrikke (hand, hand over, pass, spend), oanlangje (hand, hand over, pass, spend), ôfjaan (delivery, hand, hand over, pass), ôfdrage (hand, hand over, pass). (various references)

German

übermitteln (communicate, give, impart, send, to convey, transfer, transmit). (various references)

Greek 

μεταβιβάζω (communicate, depute, devolve, hand down, impart, make over, pass down, relay, settle on, transfer, transmit), μεταδίδω (broadcast, communicate, impart, pass on, propagate, transmit). (various references)

Hebrew 

למסור (deliver, forward, give, give in, give up, hand, hand over, impart, render, turn in), ל�"וביל (carry, drive, haul, transport), ל�"עביר (carry, communicate, hand, hand down, hand over, lead over, make over, pass, pass on, put across, remove, switch, transfer, transmit, transport). (various references)

Hungarian

szállít (deliver, haul, lift, purvey, to carry, to cart, to deliver, to expedite, to haul, to purvey, to ship, to transport, transport), közvetít (broadcast, commentate, go between, mediate, relay, televise, to convey, to cover, to interpose, to transmit), átruház (assign, confer, depute, devolve, hand over, quitclaim, to alien, to alienate, to assign, to consign, to demise, to devolve, to make over, to release, to transfer). (various references)

Indonesian

menyampaikan (deliver, relay). (various references)

Italian

trasportare (carry, fly, move, ship, transfer, transport, transpose), trasmettere (air, be transmitted, broadcast, carry, communicate, devolve, flash, pass, pass down, pass on, relay, relegate, send, teletype, transfer, transmit), portare (adduce, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, carry, drive, fetch, get, lead, move, nourish, produce, take, to bring, wear), esprimere (couch, express, express oneself, pass, put, speak, vocalise, vocalize, voice, word). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

搬送 (carry, transport). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は�"そう (carry, sailing, transport). (various references)

Korean 

운반하십시�". (various references)

Manx

ymmyrkey (appearance, attitude, bear, behave, behaviour, birth, carry, carrying, comportment, conduction, conveyance, endure, gestation, give birth, haulage, supply; conductance, support, sustain, tide, transport, yield). (various references)

Norwegian

formidle (impart), føre. (various references)

Pig Latin

onveycay

Polish

przekazać. (various references)

Portuguese

transmitir (bequeath, carry, communicate, conduct, deliver, devolve, give, hand, hand on, impart, leave behind, pass on, relay, render, report, send, superinduce, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over). (various references)

Romanian

conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), comunica (acquaint, break the news, commune, communicate, impart, inform, intercommunicate, intimate, tell), ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield), transporta (bear, carry, carry away, cart, charm, deport, drive, forward, haul, remove, transport), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), reda (express, render, reproduce, restore, return), exprima (advance, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, declare, express, formulate, have, indicate, look, phrase, put, represent, show, signify, sound, speak, state, utter, voice), duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, deliver, die, drive, duke, fare, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wage, wear), aduce (accompany, adduce, afford, bear, bring, bring in, cause, collect, drive, fetch, furnish, gather, get, lead, produce, secure, supply, take, transport, yield). (various references)

Russian 

перевозить (bear, conveyed, haul, put across, transport). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sprovesti (carry out, carry through, conduct, escort, instal, install, lead, put in, put through, take), saopštiti (apprise, apprize, communicate, inform, notify), preneti (assign, broadcast, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, negotiate, relay, remise, translate), isporučiti. (various references)

Spanish

entregar (concede, consign, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, spend, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield), alargar (accord, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch). (various references)

Swahili

kuabirisha (convey as passenger). (various references)

Swedish

transportera (carry, carry forward, carry over, extend, ferry, lift, move, ship off, transfer, transport, truck), meddela (advertise, announce, communicate, give notice, impart, inform, let know), leda (articulate, beacon, boredom, boss, captain, channel, conduct, direct, disgust, ennui, fugle, go, govern, guide, lead, loathing, open, operate, pilot, route, take, tedium, wheel), framföra (deliver, execute, extend, Lodge, offer, perform, play, prefer, present, state), överföra (carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, transfer, transmit). (various references)

Turkish

yollamak (dispatch, expedite, forward, order away, send, send forth, send off, send out, ship off, transmit), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), taşımak (bear, bear away, carry, carry away, haul, put across, relocate, remove, ride, run, stanchion, sustain, tote, transport, waft, walk, wash, wear), nakletmek (bear, bring forward, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, freight, graft, implant, recount, remove, route, ship, transfer, transplant, transport, wear), iletmek (carry off, conduct, deliver, get over, hand in, put across, transfer, transmit), getirmek (bear, bring, bring along, bring in, bring round, carry, fetch, get, introduce, propose, return, take into, usher, work up), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over). (various references)

Turkmen 

gowюuramak.Turkmen/English Dictionary 82. (various references)

Ukrainian

транспортувати (transport), виражати (denominate, denote, express, say, write), повідомляти (acquaint, admonish, advertise, advertize, advise, announce, apprise, apprize, communicate, delate, give, give notice, inform, notice, notify, publicize, report, transmit), перевозити (bear, carry, carry over, put across, ship, take over, tote, transport). (various references)

Welsh

cywain (carry, garner), cyfleu (allocate, array, place, set), cludo (bear, carry, port), hebrwng (accompany, conduct, escort), danfon (escort, send). (various references)

adfer, adferam, adferamus, adferant, adferatis, adferatur, adferebamus, adferebant, adferebat, adferebatur, adferens, adferent, adferentem, adferentes, adferentur, adferet, adferque, adferre, adferremus, adferrent, adferret, adferretur, adferri, adfers, adfert, adferte, adfertis, adfertur, adferunt, adlata, adlatae, adlatam, adlatos, adlatum, adportabat, adportaverant, adporto, adtulerant, adtulerat, adtuleritis, adtulerunt, adtuleruntque, adtuli, adtulimus, adtulisset, adtulit, com-, conferebant, conferens, conferentes, conferetis, conferetur, conferre, conferretur, confers, confertis, conlata, contulerunt, contuli, contulit, deportabunt, deportandam, deportantur, deportaverant, do, importare, inportant, inportavi, supportare, transfero, transfero transtuli translatum, transfero, transtuli, translatum, transtuli, veho, veho vexi vectum. (various references)

convoier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "convey": conveyance, conveyancer, conveyancers, conveyances, conveyancing, conveyancings, conveyed, conveyer, conveyers, conveying, conveyor, conveyorise, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorising, conveyorization, conveyorizations, conveyorize, conveyorized, conveyorizes, conveyorizing, conveyors, conveys. (additional references)

Words ending with "convey": reconvey. (additional references)

Words containing "convey": reconveyance, reconveyances, reconveyed, reconveying, reconveys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Convey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concey, confi, confu, confy, Conmey, Consey, conv, Conval, convay, conveey, convei, convein, conven, convery, convet, convol, Cornovii, Corvey. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coney, coven, covey, envoy.

-2 letters: cone, cony, cove, envy, once, oven.

-3 letters: con, coy, eon, one, voe, yen, yon.

-4 letters: en, ne, no, oe, on, oy, ye, yo.

+1 letter: conveys.

+2 letters: convexly, conveyed, conveyer, conveyor, convoyed, reconvey, solvency.

+3 letters: convexity, conveyers, conveying, conveyors, covalency, reconveys.

+4 letters: conversely, conveyance, covalently, covetingly, insolvency, reconveyed, unconvoyed.

+5 letters: biconvexity, cavernously, cognitively, conceivably, conservancy, controversy, conveniency, convergency, conversancy, convertibly, conveyancer, conveyances, conveyorise, conveyorize, polyvalence, reconveying, syncopative.