convey

Etymology

From Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.

verb

1. To move (something) from one place to another.
   Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe.
   The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus. 1858, Henry Gray, Female Organs of Generation, London: John W. Parker & Son, page 688
   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. 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335
2. (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
   […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid, And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d; 1717, Samuel Croxall, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200
3. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
   to convey an impression; to convey information
4. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
   He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
5. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
   1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson, I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]
6. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
   Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you. 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin