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Definition of Convey

1. Verb. Make known; pass on, of information. "They convey the information to them"; "She conveyed the message to me"

2. Verb. Serve as a means for expressing something. "His voice carried a lot of anger"

3. Verb. Transfer to another. "They convey the information to them"; "Communicate a disease"

4. Verb. Transmit a title or property.

5. Verb. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. "Many metals conduct heat"

6. Verb. Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. "They convey the people the food"; "This brings me to the main point"

7. Verb. Go or come after and bring or take back. "The dog fetched the hat"

Definition of Convey

1. v. t. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

2. v. i. To play the thief; to steal.

Definition of Convey

1. Verb. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another. ¹

2. Verb. To communicate; to make known; to portray. ¹

3. Verb. (legal) To transfer legal rights (to). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Convey

1. to transport [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: transport

Lexicographical Neighbors of Convey

convexify convexifying convexion convexities convexity convexly convexness convexo-concave convexo-convex convexobasia

convexoconcave convexoconcave lens convexoconvex convexoconvex lens convexoplane convey (current term) conveyable conveyal conveyals conveyance

conveyance of title conveyancer conveyancers conveyances conveyancing conveyancings conveyaunce conveyed conveyer conveyer belt

Literary usage of Convey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"But what la meant by the word "convey"? The act by which she passes to ... The language now used is: 'shall operate to convey from the wife her right of ..."

2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1803)
"To convey our Ideas. ... Thereby to convey the knowledge of things : language is either ... convey ..."

3. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"The covenant of the right to convey.—The covenant of seisin in those states that follow the rule that it is a covenant of title and not merely of possession ..."

4. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... which, for the sum of sixty francs, without taking into account the price of a drink for the driver, was to convey him as far as the Italian barrier. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The same letters which convey those hideous instructions, convey also the best of advice, the evidence of the tenderest anxiety. ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... whereby the grantor assumed to convey the property in dispute, was not void, because the company had not, as a foreign corporation, observed the ..."

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