convey

Verb

convey (third-person singular simple present conveys, present participle conveying, simple past and past participle conveyed)

1. To move (something) from one place to another.
   • 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 […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 5:8-9

   Synonyms:

   carry, transport, port

2. (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
   • Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
     Love they to live that love and honour have.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
   • […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,
     And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;1717, Samuel Croxall, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200
3. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
   • to convey an impression; to convey information
   • To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one...1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 9, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book III, page 232

   Synonyms:

   express, send, relay, impart

4. To transfer legal rights (to).
   • He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
   • The refrigerator, washer, and dryer do not convey unless it's specifically laid out in the contract.
5. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
   • I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson
   • I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
6. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
   • Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false...1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin