DELIVERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delivery mean? 

• DELIVERY (noun)
  The noun DELIVERY has 7 senses:

1. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

2. the event of giving birth

3. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

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

5. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

6. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

7. the act of delivering a child

  Familiarity information: DELIVERY used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELIVERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bringing; delivery

Context example:

his reluctant delivery of bad news

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

service; service of process; serving (the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone)

post (the delivery and collection of letters and packages)

handing over; passage (the act of passing something to another person)

consignment (the delivery of goods for sale or disposal)

airdrop (delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft)

Derivation:

deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The event of giving birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

she had a difficult delivery

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity (the event of being born)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

delivery; manner of speaking; speech

Context example:

I detected a slight accent in his speech

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

address (the manner of speaking to another individual)

catch (a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion))

tongue (a manner of speaking)

shibboleth (a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people)

tone; tone of voice (the quality of a person's voice)

elocution (an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture)

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

inflection; modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)

Holonyms ("delivery" is a part of...):

paralanguage; paralinguistic communication (the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings)

Derivation:

deliver (deliver (a speech, oration, or idea))

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

delivery; legal transfer; livery

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

conveyance; conveyance of title; conveyancing; conveying (act of transferring property title from one person to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

surrender (the delivery of a principal into lawful custody)

bailment (the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee)

Derivation:

deliver (to surrender someone or something to another)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

delivery; pitch

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

screwball (a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown)

wild pitch (an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base)

submarine ball; submarine pitch (a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead)

strike ((baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders)

spitball; spitter (an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it)

sinker (a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate)

passed ball (a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base)

overhand pitch (a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder)

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke ((baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity)

duster (a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter)

bender; breaking ball; curve; curve ball (a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter)

change-of-pace; change-of-pace ball; change-up; off-speed pitch (a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball)

beanball; beaner (a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head)

ball (a pitch that is not in the strike zone)

balk (an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base)

knuckleball; knuckler (a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving

Context example:

a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

salvation (saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation)

search and rescue mission (a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them)

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvage (the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire)

reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons)

Derivation:

deliver (free from harm or evil)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of delivering a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

delivery; obstetrical delivery

Hypernyms ("delivery" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery"):

abdominal delivery; C-section; caesarean; caesarean delivery; caesarean section; caesarian; caesarian delivery; caesarian section; cesarean; cesarean delivery; cesarean section; cesarian; cesarian section (the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way))

forceps delivery (delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries)

midwifery (assisting women at childbirth)

breech birth; breech delivery; breech presentation (delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first)

Holonyms ("delivery" is a part of...):

accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

Derivation:

deliver (cause to be born)

 Context examples 

An ointment dosage form that enhances drug delivery.

(Augmented Ointment Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A lotion dosage form that enhances drug delivery.

(Augmented Lotion Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Removal of a medical device implanted in an artery for the delivery of medication, fluids, nutrition, or other ordered treatment.

(Arterial Access Port Removal, NCI Thesaurus)

This increases oxygen delivery and reduces oxygen requirements.

(Bepridil Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatment modality used to increase the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and monoclonal antibodies to the central nervous system tissue through temporal disruption of the blood brain barrier.

(Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Chemotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

The goal is to speed the delivery of innovative approaches for the prevention and treatment of cancer.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Grid, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a feasible alternative for systemic delivery of orally inefficient drugs, such as peptide and protein drug molecules.

(Buccal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes they happen during childbirth when a baby's shoulders become stuck during delivery and the nerves stretch or tear.

(Brachial Plexus Injuries, NIH)

Delivery of electrical impulses to the heart at a faster rate than the intrinsic rate during an episode of tachycardia, in an attempt to terminate the abnormal tachycardia.

(Antitachycardia Pacing, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Upon intravenous administration, the monoclonal antibody moiety of AGS15E binds to SLITRK6 expressed on tumor cells, which facilitates both AGS15E internalization and the intracellular delivery of MMAE.

(Anti-SLITRK6 Monoclonal Antibody-MMAE Conjugate AGS15E, NCI Thesaurus)