Convey

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /kənˈveɪ/

Definitions

1. To communicate or transport something from one place or person to another
2. To move or carry something from one location to another ; to make ideas or feelings known to others
3. To transfer or deliver an object or message from one point to another ; to impart information or emotions effectively

Etymology: The most surprising thing about "convey" is that its core idea is still physical: to go along a road. Its ancestor is Classical Latin "via," meaning "way," and from that a Vulgar Latin verb "convio" arose, roughly "to accompany on the way." Old French turned this into "conveier," meaning to escort or guide someone, and it kept that sense of travel as it passed into Middle English as "conveien." Escorting a person from place to place eventually broadened into moving things, and then into moving something less tangible. To convey goods was to carry them along a route, and to convey a message was to carry it from one mind to another. The modern sense of putting ideas across grew naturally from that picture of meaning as something transported. The word's cousin "convoy" came into English from the same Old French line, and it keeps the original image of a group of ships or vehicles travelling together under escort.

Synonyms: communicate, express, transmit, relay, deliver

Antonyms: withhold, conceal, suppress, obscure, hide