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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
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ship
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?p, IPA(key): /??p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English s?ip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?, from Proto-Indo-European *sk?yb-, *skib-. More at shift.
Alternative forms
- shippe (obsolete)
Noun
ship (plural ships)
- (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (computing, mathematics, chiefly in combination) A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tyndale to this entry?)
- (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
Usage notes
- The singular form ship is sometimes used without any article, producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as camp, home, work, and school, but the details vary between them.)
- Ships were traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns her and she are still sometimes used instead of it.
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English s?ipian, from Proto-Germanic *skip?n?, from Proto-Germanic *skip? (“ship”).
Verb
ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)
- (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- The timber was […] shipped in the bay of Attalia, […] from whence it was by sea transported to Palusium.
- (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 19:
- With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 19:
- (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
- (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 159:
- She was half in the water, a mere hulk, her rigging torn to shreds, her main mast cut away, and every sea she shipped, Melmoth could hear distinctly the dying cries of those who were swept away, or perhaps of those whose mind and body, alike exhausted, relaxed their benumbed hold of hope and life together,—knew that the next shriek that was uttered must be their own and their last.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 159:
- (transitive) To pass (from one person to another).
- (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
- (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
- (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
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Etymology 3
Clipping of relationship.
Noun
ship (plural ships)
- (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.
Derived terms
- shipfic
Coordinate terms
- slash fiction
- slash
Translations
Verb
ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)
- (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, typically in fan fiction.
- 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin (?ISBN)
- I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky.
- 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin (?ISBN)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- -ship
Further reading
- Shipping (fandom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish
Middle English
Noun
ship (plural shipes or ships)
- Alternative form of schip
Vietnamese
Etymology
Clipping of English shipping.
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [sip???]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [?ip????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [?ip???] ~ [sip???]
- Phonetic: síp
Verb
ship
- to ship (goods to customers), to make a delivery
- Synonym: giao
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