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Delivery   /dɪlˈɪvəri/   Listen
Delivery

noun
(pl. deliveries)
1.
The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail).  Synonym: bringing.
2.
The event of giving birth.
3.
Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.  Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech.  "Her speech was barren of southernisms" , "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
4.
The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.  Synonyms: legal transfer, livery.
5.
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.  Synonym: pitch.
6.
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.  Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving.  "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
7.
The act of delivering a child.  Synonym: obstetrical delivery.



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"Delivery" Quotes from Famous Books



... diversity in the human population. The revolution in science and technology has been particularly noteworthy in the field of communication, extending from the family to the entire human race; from the home telephone, the morning newspaper, the phonograph, radio and television to regular mail delivery, the printing press, the camera, lithography, the typewriter, tele-communication, the computer, public address systems and the various devices for overhearing and recording that produce more or less permanent records ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... be remembered, too, that the rural free delivery and the telephone have entered the country community in the past twenty years and their effect has not yet been recorded. It has probably been in the direction of chilling instead of warming the social life of the country. The old acquaintance and the intimate social relations ...
— The Evolution of the Country Community - A Study in Religious Sociology • Warren H. Wilson

... the Bernardini whose swift thought had sent the first faithful account of the revolt of the Council of the Realm to the Signoria—his ingenuity which had secured the delivery of this true statement before the false story under the signature forced from Caterina had reached Venice—his prowess that had generaled the uprising of the citizens for the Queen's release—his devotion that had rescued the infant Prince ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... representing a half-penny, penny, &c., stamped with the name of the issuer, and denominated "tokens," to be issued in large quantities by shopkeepers as a subsidiary currency, and received at their shop in payment of goods, &c. May not ticket, defined by Johnson, "a token of any right or debt upon the delivery of which admission is granted, or a claim acknowledged," and tick, score or trust, (to go on tick), ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 • Various

... Congress, he reported to that body an outline of the circumstances related, necessarily suppressing the name of his agent, and demanding an appropriation in behalf of a man who had been of so much use, at so great risk. A suitable sum was voted; and its delivery was confided to the ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper


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