All 8 Uses of
convey
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- Yet I should fail in any attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies, or of the occupations, in which he involved me, or led me the way.†
Scene 3convey = communicate or express
- Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.†
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- But of the character of his remarks at the periods in question an example will best convey the idea.†
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- [The word 'affaire' has not yet, in France, that levity of import which it conveys with us,] "but nothing whatever has transpired to throw light upon it†
Scene 4conveys = communicates or expresses
- It was my design to convey the idea that both were effected in the same manner, at the same point.†
Scene 4convey = communicate or express
- Words are impotent to convey any just idea of the fierceness of resistance with which she wrestled with the Shadow.†
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- And now in the mere exaggeration of the prevailing character of these features, and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke.†
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- He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted, and whence, for many years, he had never ventured forth—in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated—an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit—an effect which the physique of the gray walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about upon the morale of his existence.†
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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.