Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason I use examples like bars and bowling is that it's not just do-gooding things like voting or going to church. I want to convey that this is not that we've become evil and that we're no longer doing good. The evidence is just quite clear that we're doing less together...
...stock, students could fold it up and put it in their backpacks or tape it on their wall next to the Harvard Shuttle schedule. That concise approach was lost on the creators of the folder. A map is included but it isn't built to last, and doesn't convey enough information...
...tobacco. "He makes it very hard for you to like him. He just doesn't care that much," says Crowe, who feels no need to win friends either. "The thing that I went away with was this thought: that I will honor this man. I will try to convey what he went through...
Irregular and regular verbs embody the two underlying tricks behind the gift of articulate speech: words and rules. A word is a memorized link between a sound and a meaning. The word duck does not look, walk or quack like a duck. But we can use it to convey the idea of a duck because we all once learned to connect the sound with the idea...
...also combine words into bigger words and sentences, using the second trick of language, rules. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that isn't news but when a man bites a dog, it is. Rules let us convey news by reshuffling words...