Both Uses
convey
in
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
(Edited)
- When, one morning, the jailer informed me I'd now been six months in jail, I believed him--but the words conveyed nothing to my mind.
Chpt 2.2 *conveyed = communicated or expressed
- They came for me at half-past seven in the morning and I was conveyed to the law courts in a prison van.
Chpt 2.3 *conveyed = transported
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.