conveyance
- noun
- /kənˈveɪəns/
- Agronomists and social scientists alike have skirted issues of conveyance loss and its impact on cultural evolution.
- conveyance of information
- conveyance of meaning
And so you'll find that people mirror the conveyance, right?
- And so you'll find that people mirror the conveyance, right?
Examples
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The component skills necessary for content knowledge conveyance are contained within the middle levels of the pyramid.
Academic text (1993) -
The email was a clear conveyance of the team's ideas and plans for the project.
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Failure to include tribal governments in such discussions leads to the conveyance of incomplete information.
Academic text (1999) -
In Celestina's unique verbal universe, the conveyance of meaning is never circumscribed to words alone.
Academic text (1995) -
Effective teaching is essential for the conveyance of knowledge to students.
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His speech served as a powerful conveyance of his feelings about the importance of community service.
Synonyms
A message sent from one person or group to another
The sending of information or messages from one person to another
Spreading information or ideas so many people learn them
To send something, often a document, from one person or place to another
Sharing information, thoughts, or feelings with others
An act of sending information from one place to another
To cause a message or document to go somewhere else
Giving information or skills to someone
An act of giving information or skills to other people
The act of telling people facts or details
Compounds
- Formal
An official process that legally transfers ownership of property between people
- Formal
A signed document that transfers land or a house from one person to another
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conveyance comes from Latin vehere 'to carry', the same root as vehicle, so a helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine ideas or feelings being 'carried' from one person to another.