Delivery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Delivery	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Delivery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delivery n the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" Synonym(s): delivery, bringing the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery" your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" Synonym(s): manner of speaking, speech, delivery the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another Synonym(s): delivery, livery, legal transfer (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter Synonym(s): pitch, delivery recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" Synonym(s): rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving the act of delivering a child Synonym(s): delivery, obstetrical delivery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delivery \Deliv"ery\, n.; pl. {Deliveries}. 1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. 3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. 4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. 5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. --Sir H. Wotton. 6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pronunciation \Pronun`cia"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See {Pronounce}.] 1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. 2. The mode of uttering words or sentences. 3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called {delivery}. --J. Q. Adams.