English Dictionary
◊ CONVEY
convey
v 1: make known; pass on, of information [syn: {impart}]
2: serve as a means for expressing something: "The painting of
Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot af
anger" [syn: {carry}, {express}]
3: transfer or deliver to another, as of information; "convey
the news to everyone" [syn: {transmit}, {communicate}]
4: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of
sounds or images; "Sound carries well over water"; "The
airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
[syn: {conduct}, {transmit}, {carry}, {channel}]
5: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me
the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the
boss"; also metaphorical, as in "This brings me to the
main point" [syn: {bring}, {take}]
6: bring or fetch; "Get me those books over there, please";
"Could you bring over the wine?"; "The dog fetched the
hat" [syn: {bring}, {get}, {fetch}] [ant: {take away}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN CONVERT?
CONVERT
1. String processing language, combined the pattern matching
and transformation operations of COMIT with the recursive data
structures of Lisp. "Convert", A. Guzman et al, CACM
9(8):604-615 (Aug 1966).
2. Early language to convert programs and data from one
language to another. "CONVERT Manual", OLI Systems Inc (Oct
1976).