Word Meanings - CONVOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVOY)

• Accompany
• Follow
• consort
• attend
• join
• coexist
• escort
• convoy
• Lead Conduct
• guide
• precede
• induce
• spend
• pass
• commence
• inaugurate
• persuade
• direct
• influence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONVOY)

• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude
• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to CONVOY)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• CONVOY
  To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.