All 7 Uses
convey
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A Soldier of the Great War
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- As Rafi tried to explain to the stunned railwaymen, in pantomime, that he was Jewish and didn't eat ham (the first part of the pantomime was to convey that he was circumcised) Alessandro grabbed him by the shoulder.†
Chpt 2 *convey = communicate or express
- Alessandro was taken to Stella Maris, a short distance from Rome, in half a dozen conveyances.†
Chpt 6 *conveyances = means of transport
- As he climbed the hill he thought not of angels and their conveyances, but of a motorized trolley.†
Chpt 1
- Nicolo turned to look in the direction his guide had indicated, and he saw a lightened mass of buildings that, even in the darkness, conveyed a reassuring and uniquely Italian sense of dilapidation.†
Chpt 1
- Oderisi's 'Piu ridon ....'was how Dante drew attention to the humility of the miniaturists, who tried in the simplest, densest strokes to convey the essence of what they saw, and were not interested in discursive interpolations, conceits, or dazzling excursions that proved them to their fellowsalthough they had to do some of this simply to arouse their patrons.†
Chpt 7
- I don't know, but if He were, wouldn't you imagine that the first thing He'd do would be to have me conveyed to Vienna?†
Chpt 8
- After a lifetime of thinking a great deal about the question of beauty-it was my job, just as you make propellers-I have found nothing that illuminates or conveys it save another beauty.†
Chpt 10
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.