All 6 Uses
convey
in
Severance
(Edited)
- He looked at me, as if trying to decide whether my response truly indicated the limits of my Chinese-speaking abilities or if I was simply conveying modesty, a very Chinese quality.
p. 86.8conveying = expressing
- Things—the dashboard, the wrong time of day—in my vision were stuttering, as if trying to convey messages.
p. 145.8convey = communicate
- Adam drew his thumb across his neck, conveying that this was a dead stalk.
p. 163.7conveying = communicating or expressing
- If she were fluent, if she could've overcome her shyness, her hesitancy, she would have liked to convey how far she had come.
p. 172.8convey = communicate or express
- It went to voicemail, but the voice mailbox was full, or so the automated Chinese message seemed to convey.
p. 213.3
- I thought about conveying what the 911 operator had told me, that it was no longer safe to work in the building.
p. 251.9 *conveying = communicating or expressing
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.