convey

verb

Etymology: From Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.

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 […]”

2. 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.”

   “[…] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid, And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;”

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 another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.”

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. To manage with privacy; to carry out.

   “1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson, I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]”

   “I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.”

6. 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 bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you.”