CONVEYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveying mean? 

• CONVEYING (noun)
  The noun CONVEYING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CONVEYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVEYING (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("conveying" is a kind of...):

transfer; transference (transferring ownership)

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

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

Derivation:

convey (transmit a title or property)

 Context examples 

"Thou art my woman, Oona," Negore said, his tones dominant and conveying a hint of menace.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Is it that there is something in the essence of the thing itself, or that it is a medium, a tangible help, in conveying memories of sympathy and comfort?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I think, Hopkins, that you should lose no time in conveying your prisoner to a place of safety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The transmission or conveying of something through a medium or passage, especially the transmission of heat or electricity or sound.

(Conduction, NCI Thesaurus)

The short wide vessel arising from the conus arteriosus of the right ventricle and conveying unaerated blood to the lungs.

(Murine Pulmonary Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

HER3, which lacks the kinase domain conveying ligand-binding signaling by forming heterodimers with other EGFR members that have kinase activity, is frequently overexpressed in solid tumors.

(Copper Cu 64-DOTA-Anti-HER3 Monoclonal Antibody U3-1287, NCI Thesaurus)

Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I answered the solicitude which his face expressed, by conveying the same expression into my own, and shaking my head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He insisted, moreover, on conveying all their letters to and from the post for them, and would not be denied the satisfaction of sending them his newspaper every day.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In proof, he repeats, and more eagerly, what he said at Portsmouth about our conveying you home, and I join him in it with all my soul.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)