All 7 Uses
convey
in
The American Language, by Mencken
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- At an early date they shortened the English law-phrase, /to convey by deed/, to the simple verb, /to deed/.
*convey = transfer
- Both are useful words; it is impossible, not employing them, to convey the ideas behind them without circumlocution.†
*convey = communicate or express
- English words conveying, in the United States, a different meaning from that attached to them in England.†
- Our conveyancers, in describing real property, always speak of "all that /lot/ or /parcel/ of land."†
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- There is absolutely no synonym for it; to convey its idea in orthodox English would take a whole sentence.†
- These words convey different ideas.†
- But the object of language is not to bemuse grammarians, but to convey ideas, and the more simply it accomplishes that object the more effectively it meets the needs of an energetic and practical people and the larger its inherent vitality.†
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.