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vehicle

noun
/ˈviː.ɪ.kəl/UK/ˈvi.ə.kəl/US/ˈvɪː(ə).kəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).

  1. borrowed from véhicule

Definitions

  1. A conveyance

    A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

    • But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
    • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
    • Both vehicle types will feed that data into artificial intelligence systems that, having been trained through so-called machine learning, will identify, characterize and evaluate external phenomena.

  2. A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.

    • kinetic kill vehicle

  3. A medium for expression of talent or views.

    • supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.

    2. The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

      • an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle

    3. An entity to achieve an end.

      • mission service as a vehicle for development of better-rounded worldviews

    4. A mode or method of spiritual practice

      A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.

    5. An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

    6. To transport in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle.

    7. To travel in a vehicle.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vehicle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vehicle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at vehicle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA