delivery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of conveying something.

   • The delivery was completed by four.
   • delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
2. 2

   The item which has been conveyed.

   • Your delivery is on the table.
3. 3

   The act or process of a mother giving birth.

   • Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition
   • The delivery was painful.
   • During pregnancy, the Queen had been more than twice as wide as she was tall, and the act of delivery took three months and six days after it had begun.
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   1. 4

      A pitching motion.

      • His delivery has a catch in it.
   2. 5

      A thrown pitch.

      • Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
   3. 6

      The manner of speaking or singing.

      • The actor's delivery was flawless.
      • 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.
      • 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
   4. 7

      The administration of a drug.

      • drug delivery system
   5. 8

      A ball bowled.

   6. 9

      The process of throwing a stone.

   7. 10

      Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

   8. 11

      A cross or pass

The neighborhood

• neighborcontinuous delivery
• neighbormisdelivery
• neighborspecial delivery