Delivery
[dɪ'lɪv(ə)rɪ] or [dɪ'lɪvəri]
Definition
(noun.) the act of delivering a child.
(noun.) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); 'his reluctant delivery of bad news'.
(noun.) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.
(noun.) the event of giving birth; 'she had a difficult delivery'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
(n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
(n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
(n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
(n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
(n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
Checker: Rosalind
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Surrender, conveyance, giving up.[2]. Utterance, enunciation, pronunciation, speech, elocution.[3]. Childbirth, parturition, labor, travail.
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Examples
- The soft-hearted cook added his intercession, and the result was that the man who had first appeared undertook its delivery. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It should be no greater than the danger of an ordinary delivery. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Little by little, however, progressive business men saw the advantages to be gained by motor delivery and the motor truck began to gain favor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Fill the trough with water until the shelf is just covered and allow the end of the delivery tube to rest just beneath the hole in the shelf. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. Snodgrass was affected, but he undertook the delivery of the note as readily as if he had been a twopenny postman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The delivery of that mule was then complete. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We can prove this by putting some dry shavings in a strong test tube fitted with a delivery tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange may be made in three different ways: Cash, regular or on a limited option to buyer and seller as to the time of delivery or acceptance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With motor trucks, merchants have extended their deliveries to reach territory they could not touch under the horse-delivery system. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The safe delivery of the red girl to Tal Hajus is of the greatest importance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At noon Catherine was still in the delivery room. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For light parcel system there is said to be no form of delivery that excels the motorcycle in speed and efficiency and nothing with operation costs so low. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With motor trucks, merchants have extended their deliveries to reach territory they could not touch under the horse-delivery system. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Rodney