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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convoy \Con"voy\, n. [F. convoi.]
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The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
To obtain the convoy of a man-of-war.
--Macaulay. A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
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A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy on the road.
--Emerson. Conveyance; means of transportation. [Obs.]
--Shak.A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
--Knight.
Convoy \Con*voy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Convoying.] [F. convoyer, OF. conveier, convoier. See Convey.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 16c., "the act of guiding or escorting for protection," from convoy (v.), late 14c., from Old French convoier, from Vulgar Latin *conviare, literally "go together on the road" (see convey). The meaning "train of ships or wagons carrying munitions or provisions in wartime under protection of escort" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels 2 A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort vb. (context transitive English) To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
WordNet
n. a procession of land vehicles traveling together
a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
the act of escorting while in transit
v. escort in transit; "the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone"; "the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific"
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Wikipedia
A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support. It may also be used in a non-military sense, for example when driving through remote areas. Arriving at the scene of a major emergency with a well-ordered unit and intact command structure can be another motivation.
Convoy is a 1978 action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Franklyn Ajaye and Burt Young. The movie is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song " Convoy" by C.W. McCall and Chip Davis. The film was made when the CB Radio/ trucking craze was at its peak in the United States, and followed the similarly themed films White Line Fever (1975) and Smokey and the Bandit (1977), and the television series Movin' On (1974).
A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support.
Convoy may also refer to:
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (pseudonym of Bill Fries) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US. Written by McCall and Chip Davis, the song spent six weeks at number one on the country charts and one week at number one on the pop charts. The song went to number one in Canada as well, hitting the top of the RPM Top Singles Chart on January 24, 1976. "Convoy" further peaked at number two in the UK. The song capitalized on the fad for citizens band (CB) radio. The song was the inspiration for the 1978 Sam Peckinpah film Convoy. The song is also in the video game's soundtrack on the in-game radio station, Rebel Radio from the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, and Disney Channel (including Disney Channel Asia), a basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by Disney Channels Worldwide, a unit of the Disney–ABC Television Group.
Convoy was a short lived San Diego, California rock band. After independently releasing Pineapple Recording Sessions, the group was signed to Hybrid Recordings. The label released Black Licorice in August 2001.
Convoy also recorded "Let's Spend the Night Together", a cover of the Rolling Stones song, for an ad campaign by Sheraton Hotels.
The band was formed by some members of Dishwater. Dishwater was a very successful California rock and roll band with members, Ryan Ramos, Jason Hill, Robbie Dodds, Mark Maigaard, and Jeff Winfrey. Dishwater was managed by Matthew Ramos, brother of Ryan Ramos. Dishwater released "The Wooden Nickle Album" independently selling tens of thousands of copies throughout the state of California.
The core members of Convoy formed Louis XIV soon after the group's dissolution.
Convoy is a 13-episode American television show set during World War II that appeared on NBC for the 1965–1966 television season.
The series starred John Gavin as Commander Dan Talbot of the US Navy destroyer escort DD-181 and John Larch as civilian merchant Captain Ben Foster of the cargo ship Flagship, who were involved with the convoy ships and their escorts that help to transport food, supplies and war materials across the Atlantic during the Battle of the Atlantic.
The series also featured Linden Chiles as Steve Kirk and James T. Callahan, formerly of ABC's Wendy and Me sitcom, in the role of Lieutenant O'Connell. Among the guest stars were Dennis Hopper, Jack Palance, Barbara Rush, James Doohan, Leslie Nielsen, Horst Ebersberg, Harold Gould, and Jeremy Slate.
Convoy is a 1940 British war film, produced by Ealing Studios, directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Clive Brook, John Clements and Edward Chapman. It was Tennyson's last film before being killed in a plane crash.
Convoy is an indie video game released on for Windows and Mac. The game features pixel art graphics and squad based tactical combat.
Convoy is a mix of FTL and Mad Max. The game has players looking around the wastelands of a future planet in an outfitted and defensively covered Semi-trailer truck for parts to a crashed spaceship.
Convoy is a lost 1927 silent World War I drama starring Lowell Sherman and Dorothy Mackaill and released through First National Pictures. The film is an early producing credit for the Halperin Brothers, Victor and Edward, later of White Zombie fame, and is the final screen appearance of Broadway stars Gail Kane and Vincent Serrano.
The Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious (1946) was based on the same story, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.
Usage examples of "convoy".
After all, Al Farooq, the very mosque al-Fadl worked out of, was the scene of that intense four-week FBI surveillance in the summer of 1989, when agents followed the convoys of jihadis to their Calverton shooting sessions.
He agrees that in the light of enemy dispositions it is right to postpone the March convoy.
A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.
World War Two, the Allies ran convoys to both Murmansk and Arkhangelsk for several years.
In the middle of the Ashura services, an Israeli military convoy tried to drive through Nabatiya, honking horns for people to get out of the way.
Pontiac had been warned at last of this new danger, and had sent his trusty Ottawas, leaping like deer, down the river banks with a faint hope that the approaching convoy might still be cut off.
To drive the convoy away as well, to leave the colonnade, go into the palace, order the room darkened, collapse on the bed, send for cold water, call in a plaintive voice for his dog Banga, and complain to him about the hemicrania.
The attorney general pressed Barnett and Johnson to keep the peace, and the federal convoy still barreled on.
Whatever Beaumont had to tell them, convoy work was not going to be included, that was obvious.
The U-boats, which had by August begun to work from Biscayan ports, took severe toll of our Atlantic convoys without suffering many losses themselves.
If, despite everything, a U-boat did succeed in latching onto a convoy, it was not itself allowed to attack but had to maintain contact and report position, course and speed by radioed short-code signal to the C-in-C U-boats, who would call up all the boats within reach.
Vigilant and the two Coast Guard patrol boats were at last withdrawn to accompany a convoy from Fort Pierce to the north.
In general the boats maintained radio silence, but when reporting position or damage, above all on sighting a convoy, a lively exchange of information took place with the C-in-C.
Thus ended the last attack on the convoy SL 118, in which four boats of the Blucher group, including U 333, had taken part.
February the effect of air surveillance has increased alarmingly when many boats are returning from big convoy battles.