Verb

(head)

(convey)

Verb

(en verb)

To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.

* Shakespeare

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.

Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information

* John Locke

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

* Spenser

The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.

(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

* Shakespeare

I will convey the business as I shall find means.

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

Verb

(head)

(compare)

Verb

(compar)

(label) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with' Y, one might have found it similar '''to''' Y or different ' from Y.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke

, title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}

(label) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.

To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

(label) To be similar (often used in the negative ).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Shall pack horsescompare with Caesar's?

(label) To get; to obtain.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

To fill his bags, and richesse to compare .