All 6 Uses of
convey
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me.†
Chpt 4 *conveyed = communicated or expressed
- It will end in my being conveyed into the house.†
Chpt 1
- It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west.†
Chpt 2
- It is not necessary that I should prolong a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet.†
Chpt 8
- I have a confused memory, too, of having been lifted and conveyed somewhere.†
Chpt 9
- How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a very plain tale.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.