delivery
nouncommon in dialogue
- Australia//dɪˈlɪv.(ə.)ɹi//
The act of conveying something.
noun
- 1
The act of conveying something.
The delivery was completed by four.
delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
- 2
The item which has been conveyed.
Your delivery is on the table.
- 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.
- 4
A pitching motion.
His delivery has a catch in it.
- 5
A thrown pitch.
Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
- 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
- 7
The administration of a drug.
drug delivery system
- 8
A ball bowled.
- 9
The process of throwing a stone.
- 10
Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- 11
A cross or pass
The win was secured with another moment of significance four minutes from time when captain Harry Kane, who had once again struggled to influence the game, headed in from substitute Jack Grealish's perfect delivery for his first goal of Euro 2020.
Etymology
From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.
Forms
- plural
- deliveries
delivery · The act of conveying something.
dell · A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground,…Dell · A surname.Della · A female given name originating as a coinage.