delivery
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French delivrer.
Pronunciation
Noun
delivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)
- The act of conveying something.
- The delivery was completed by four.
- delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
- The item which has been conveyed.
- Your delivery is on the table.
- The act of giving birth
- The delivery was painful.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- His delivery has a catch in it.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
- The manner of speaking.
- The actor's delivery was flawless.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
- I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- Drug delivery system.
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
act of conveying something
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item which has been conveyed
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act of giving birth
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pitching motion
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thrown pitch
manner of speaking
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administration of a drug
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English delivery.
Pronunciation
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Noun
delivery m (plural deliveries)
- (Brazil) delivery (the transportation of goods, usually food, directly to the customer’s house)
- Synonym: entrega
Spanish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English delivery.
Pronunciation
Noun
delivery m (plural deliveries or delivery)
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