convey
/kənˈveɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.83 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
Example Sentences
- "Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe."
- "[…] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]"
- "The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus."
- "The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers."
- "Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: Love they to live that love and honour have."
- "[…] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid, And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;"
Etymology
From Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: conveien, conveier, *convio, via