Instruct vs Convey - What's the difference?
instruct | convey | Related terms |
(label) to teach by giving instructions
(label) to direct; to order (usage note : "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")
(label) arranged; furnished; provided
* Chapman
(label) instructed; taught; enlightened
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.
In obsolete terms the difference between instruct and convey
is that instruct is instructed; taught; enlightened while convey is to carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.As a noun instruct
is instruction.As an adjective instruct
is arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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* guideAdjective
(-)- (Milton)
convey
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(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.