Woo vs Convey - What's the difference?
woo | convey |
To endeavor to gain someone's support.
(often of a man) To try to persuade someone to marry oneself; to solicit in love.
* Prior
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
* Milton
* Bryant
(slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
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 a proper noun woo
is a chinese surname.As a verb convey is
to transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.woo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wowen, .Alternative forms
* wo, wow, wowe (obsolete)Verb
- Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
- Thee, chantress, oft the woods among / I woo , to hear thy even song.
- I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.
Synonyms
* courtDerived terms
* woo backEtymology 2
Interjection
(en interjection)- "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo , that's great!"
Etymology 3
convey
English
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.
