'Delivery' definitions:
Definition of 'delivery'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: delivery, bringing]
noun
The event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"
noun
Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" [syn: manner of speaking, speech, delivery]
noun
The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another [syn: delivery, livery, legal transfer]
noun
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter [syn: pitch, delivery]
noun
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving]
noun
The act of delivering a child [syn: delivery, obstetrical delivery]
Definition of 'Delivery'
From: GCIDE
- Delivery \De*liv"er*y\, n.; pl. Deliveries.
- 1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. [1913 Webster]
- Neater limbs and freer delivery. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'delivery'
From: GCIDE
- Pronunciation \Pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The mode of uttering words or sentences. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. --J. Q. Adams. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'delivery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienation,
- accommodation,
- accordance,
- accouchement,
- affranchisement,
- alienation,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- articulation,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- attack,
- award,
- awarding,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bearing,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bestowment,
- birth,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blessed event,
- break,
- breakout,
- cession,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- communication,
- concession,
- conduction,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- confinement,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- contagion,
- contribution,
- convection,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- deeding,
- deliverance,
- demise,
- deportation,
- diapedesis,
- diffusion,
- disenthrallment,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- dissemination,
- distribution,
- donation,
- emancipation,
- Emancipation Proclamation,
- emergence,
- endowment,
- enfeoffment,
- enfranchisement,
- enunciation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- exchange,
- execution,
- export,
- exportation,
- expression,
- expulsion,
- extradition,
- extrication,
- flight,
- freeing,
- furnishment,
- gay liberation,
- genesis,
- getaway,
- gifting,
- giving,
- giving birth,
- grant,
- granting,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- impartation,
- impartment,
- import,
- importation,
- interchange,
- investiture,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- labor,
- leak,
- leakage,
- lease and release,
- liberality,
- liberation,
- lifesaving,
- manumission,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- migration,
- multiparity,
- mutual transfer,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- offer,
- osmosis,
- outlet,
- parturition,
- passage,
- passing over,
- performance,
- perfusion,
- phonation,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- prisonbreak,
- pronunciation,
- provision,
- ransom,
- recovery,
- redemption,
- release,
- rescue,
- retrieval,
- riddance,
- sale,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- setting at liberty,
- setting-free,
- settlement,
- settling,
- spread,
- spreading,
- subscription,
- supplying,
- surrender,
- the Nativity,
- the stork,
- trading,
- transduction,
- transfer,
- transfer of property,
- transference,
- transfusion,
- transit,
- transition,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmigration of souls,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- transmittance,
- transplacement,
- transplantation,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- travail,
- travel,
- utterance,
- vent,
- vesting,
- vocalization,
- voicing,
- vouchsafement
Words containing 'Delivery'
- Deliveries,
- Gaol delivery,
- Jail delivery,
- Symbolical delivery,
- abdominal delivery,
- breech delivery,
- caesarean delivery,
- caesarian delivery,
- care delivery,
- cash on delivery,
- cesarean delivery,
- collect on delivery,
- delivery boy,
- delivery truck,
- delivery van,
- forceps delivery,
- general delivery,
- healthcare delivery,
- obstetrical delivery,
- special delivery,
- Jail delivery commission,
- frank breech delivery,
- gene delivery vector,
- health care delivery,
- liposomal delivery vector,
- rural free delivery,
- viral delivery vector,
- Commission of general gaol delivery