delivery

[De*livĀ·er*y]

The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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the act of delivering a child

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recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon''s job is the saving of lives"

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(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

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the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news"

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the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

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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"

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the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"


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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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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.

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The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

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The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

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The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.

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The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.


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. 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. 3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. 4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. 5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Neater limbs and freer delivery.
6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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Usage Examples

A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

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Other Usage Examples

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

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