All 4 Uses
convey
in
The War of the Worlds
(Edited)
- It was the landlord of the Spotted Dog, whose conveyance I had taken.
Chpt 1.10conveyance = carriage (means of transport)
- Carts, carriages everywhere, the most astonishing miscellany of conveyances and horseflesh.
Chpt 1.12conveyances = means of transport
- Plenty of Londoners did not hear of the Martians until the panic of Monday morning. Those who did took some time to realise all that the hastily worded telegrams in the Sunday papers conveyed.
Chpt 1.14 *conveyed = communicated
- Some of the people who crowded in the carts whipped stupidly at their horses and quarrelled with other drivers; some sat motionless, staring at nothing with miserable eyes; some gnawed their hands with thirst, or lay prostrate in the bottoms of their conveyances.
Chpt 1.16 *conveyances = carriages (means of transport)
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) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.