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Definition of Delivery
1. Noun. The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail). "His reluctant delivery of bad news"
Generic synonyms: Conveyance, Transfer, Transferral, Transport, Transportation
Specialized synonyms: Airdrop, Consignment, Handing Over, Passage, Post, Service, Service Of Process, Serving
Derivative terms: Deliver
2. Noun. The event of giving birth. "She had a difficult delivery"
3. Noun. Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally. "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
Generic synonyms: Expressive Style, Style
Specialized synonyms: Address, Catch, Tongue, Shibboleth, Tone, Tone Of Voice, Elocution, Inflection, Prosody, Inflection, Modulation
Group relationships: Paralanguage, Paralinguistic Communication
Derivative terms: Deliver
4. Noun. The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.
Specialized synonyms: Surrender, Bailment
Generic synonyms: Conveyance, Conveyance Of Title, Conveyancing, Conveying
Derivative terms: Deliver
5. Noun. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.
Generic synonyms: Throw
Specialized synonyms: Balk, Ball, Beanball, Beaner, Change-of-pace, Change-of-pace Ball, Change-up, Off-speed Pitch, Bender, Breaking Ball, Curve, Curve Ball, Duster, Bullet, Fastball, Heater, Hummer, Smoke, Knuckleball, Knuckler, Overhand Pitch, Passed Ball, Screwball, Sinker, Spitball, Spitter, Strike, Submarine Ball, Submarine Pitch, Wild Pitch
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Derivative terms: Pitch
6. Noun. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
Generic synonyms: Recovery, Retrieval
Specialized synonyms: Lifesaving, Redemption, Salvation, Reclamation, Reformation, Salvage, Salvage, Salvation, Search And Rescue Mission
Derivative terms: Deliver, Deliver, Rescue
7. Noun. The act of delivering a child.
Generic synonyms: Act, Deed, Human Action, Human Activity
Specialized synonyms: Breech Birth, Breech Delivery, Breech Presentation, Abdominal Delivery, C-section, Caesarean, Caesarean Delivery, Caesarean Section, Caesarian, Caesarian Delivery, Caesarian Section, Cesarean, Cesarean Delivery, Cesarean Section, Cesarian, Cesarian Section, Forceps Delivery, Midwifery
Group relationships: Accouchement, Childbearing, Childbirth, Vaginal Birth
Derivative terms: Deliver
Definition of Delivery
1. n. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Definition of Delivery
1. Noun. The act of conveying something ¹
2. Noun. The item which has been conveyed ¹
3. Noun. The act of giving birth ¹
4. Noun. (baseball) A pitching motion ¹
5. Noun. (baseball) A thrown pitch ¹
6. Noun. The manner of speaking ¹
7. Noun. (medicine) administration of a drug ¹
8. Noun. (cricket) A ball bowled ¹
9. Noun. (curling) The process of throwing a stone ¹
10. Adjective. Related to '''delivery'''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delivery
1. the act of delivering [n -ERIES]
Medical Definition of Delivery
1. Expulsion or extraction of the child and the after-birth. (12 Dec 1998)
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Literary usage of Delivery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"[PART V. at their extreme or ultimate place of delivery, ... 371, it was held
that, in the absence of any special custom, a delivery at the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"If such a delivery was not sufficient to enable the attorney to maintain an action
for his bill, he would have a fair right when an order was taken out to ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Freight and charges to be paid as noted below, upon the actual and complete
delivery of the said goods and freight to said consignees or their assigns. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Carriers $=»174—delivery at original destination to another carrier for transportation
to another destination, as requested by holder of bill of lading, ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"While actual delivery of the policy is not essential to the validity of a
consummated contract of life insurance, unless by the terms of the agreement it be ..."
6. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"But many questions have arisen as to what amounted to a delivery, ... For a
carrier is bound to keep the goods safely after delivery to him for carriage, ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"PUERPERAL ENDOCARDITIS, \VITH HEMIPLEGIA, AFTER delivery. ... On the fourth day
after delivery it was noted that the heart was acting irregularly at times; ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"Fraud in obtaining delivery of a lease, the execution of which was obtained bond
fide, affects it equally, as if used to obtain the execution ; delivery ..."
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