Accompany vs Convey - What's the difference?
accompany | convey |
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
* Shakespeare
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
* John Locke
(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
* Spenser
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
As verbs the difference between accompany and convey
is that accompany is to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with while convey is to transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.accompany
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Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
Usage notes
(to go with) Persons are said to be accompanied by', and inanimate objects, state or condition is said to be accompanied ' with .Synonyms
* (go with) attend, escort, go with :* We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. :* We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subordination . :* We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect . :*: A gentleman accompanies' a friend to some public place; he '''attends''' or ' escorts a lady.convey
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Verb
(en verb)- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
- Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.
- to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information
- Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
- I will convey the business as I shall find means.