CONVEYANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveyance mean? 

• CONVEYANCE (noun)
  The noun CONVEYANCE has 5 senses:

1. document effecting a property transfer

2. the transmission of information

3. something that serves as a means of transportation

4. act of transferring property title from one person to another

5. the act of moving something from one location to another

  Familiarity information: CONVEYANCE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVEYANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Document effecting a property transfer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("conveyance" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyance"):

quitclaim; quitclaim deed (document transferring title or right or claim to another)

Derivation:

conveyancer (a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The transmission of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conveyance; impartation; imparting

Hypernyms ("conveyance" is a kind of...):

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyance"):

giving (the imparting of news or promises etc.)

Derivation:

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that serves as a means of transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conveyance; transport

Hypernyms ("conveyance" is a kind of...):

instrumentality; instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyance"):

vehicle (a conveyance that transports people or objects)

aerial tramway; cable tramway; ropeway; tram; tramway (a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers)

trailer (a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor)

litter (conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers)

telfer; telpher (one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage)

lift; ski lift; ski tow (a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill)

sidecar (conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle)

cargo ships; merchant marine; merchant vessels; shipping (conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry)

roll-on roll-off (a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination)

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

mail (a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system)

horsebox (a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses)

dolly (conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted)

dolly (conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Act of transferring property title from one person to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; conveyance of title; conveyancing; conveying

Hypernyms ("conveyance" is a kind of...):

transfer; transference (transferring ownership)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyance"):

delivery; legal transfer; livery (the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another)

Derivation:

convey (transmit a title or property)

conveyancer (a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of moving something from one location to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("conveyance" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "conveyance"):

pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyance"):

airlift; lift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))

transshipment (the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment)

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

relocation; resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))

lighterage (the transportation of goods on a lighter)

carry (the act of carrying something)

drive (the act of driving a herd of animals overland)

bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))

connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)

Derivation:

convey (go or come after and bring or take back)

convey (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

 Context examples 

So soon as I could at all collect my thoughts, I sent for Joram, and begged him to provide me a conveyance in which it could be got to London in the night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The next he knew, he was dimly aware that his tongue was hurting and that he was being jolted along in some kind of a conveyance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Infection transmitted by water, food or other means of conveyance.

(Indirect Contact Transmission Infection, Food and Drug Administration)

I jumped up, took my muff and umbrella, and hastened into the inn-passage: a man was standing by the open door, and in the lamp-lit street I dimly saw a one-horse conveyance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By the time Mrs. Price's answer arrived, there remained but a very few days more to be spent at Mansfield; and for part of one of those days the young travellers were in a good deal of alarm on the subject of their journey, for when the mode of it came to be talked of, and Mrs. Norris found that all her anxiety to save her brother-in-law's money was vain, and that in spite of her wishes and hints for a less expensive conveyance of Fanny, they were to travel post; when she saw Sir Thomas actually give William notes for the purpose, she was struck with the idea of there being room for a third in the carriage, and suddenly seized with a strong inclination to go with them, to go and see her poor dear sister Price.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We removed to Windsor; and two days afterwards I received a parcel from her, my own letters all returned!—and a few lines at the same time by the post, stating her extreme surprize at not having had the smallest reply to her last; and adding, that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued, and as it must be equally desirable to both to have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, she now sent me, by a safe conveyance, all my letters, and requested, that if I could not directly command hers, so as to send them to Highbury within a week, I would forward them after that period to her at—: in short, the full direction to Mr. Smallridge's, near Bristol, stared me in the face.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Have you any sort of conveyance?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)