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Conveys vs Transmit - What's the difference?

conveys | transmit |

As verbs the difference between conveys and transmit

is that conveys is third-person singular of convey while transmit is to send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.

conveys

English

Verb

(head)
  • (convey)

  • convey

    English

    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.
  • Synonyms

    * (to convey a message) send, relay

    Derived terms

    * conveyable * conveyance * conveyee * conveyer * conveyor

    transmit

    English

    Verb

    (transmitt)
  • To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
  • To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
  • To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
  • To communicate news or information.
  • To convey energy or force through a mechanism.
  • To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).
  • Synonyms

    * (l)