different between convey vs screech
convey
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French conveier (French French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?ve?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
convey (third-person singular simple present conveys, present participle conveying, simple past and past participle conveyed)
- To move (something) from one place to another.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- […] 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 […]
- 1858, Henry Gray, London: John W. Parker & Son, “Female Organs of Generation,” p. 688,[2]
- The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
- Love they to live that love and honour have.
- 1717, Samuel Croxall (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200,[4]
- […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,
- And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;
- 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 19,[5]
- It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 6, p. 27,[7]
- This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 3,[8]
- I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 1,[9]
- To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin, The Hibernia Press, 1809, p. 42,[10]
- […] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.
- (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2,[12]
- I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,
- 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,
Synonyms
- (to move something from one place to another): carry, transport
- (to take someone from one place to another): accompany, conduct (archaic), escort
- (to communicate a message): express, send, relay
Derived terms
Related terms
- convoy
Translations
convey From the web:
- what convey means
- what conveys a property
- what conveys a visual representation of data
- what conveys meaning and is useful to users
- what conveys a significant amount of information
- what conveys in a home sale
- what conveys fair lending
- what conveys comfort caring and reassurance
screech
English
Etymology
1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan? (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scric?n, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skr?han? (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?ch, IPA(key): /sk?i?t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): [sk?i?t?]
- (US) IPA(key): [sk?it?]
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Noun
screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)
- A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- That the night owl should sreech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty [...]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
- A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)
- To make such a sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
Translations
Anagrams
- creches, crèches
screech From the web:
- what screeches
- what screeches at night
- what screech owls eat
- what screech owl sound like
- what screeches at night uk
- what's screech doing now
- what screeches in minecraft
- screech meaning
you may also like
- convey vs screech
- endure vs second
- reservoir vs mine
- negate vs snarl
- fracture vs smash
- instruct vs hiss
- subtile vs sagacious
- safe vs assured
- ingenious vs pungent
- captious vs splenetic
- orderly vs shapely
- origin vs reason
- distant vs slight
- impressive vs noble
- detrimental vs distressful
- wearisome vs confusing
- perpendicular vs proper
- stupid vs apathetic
- slight vs impudence
- dauntless vs legendary