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Delivery

noun

(pl. deliveries)

The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail). Synonym: bringing.

The event of giving birth.

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"

The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another. Synonyms: legal transfer, livery.

(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter. Synonym: pitch.

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving. "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

The act of delivering a child. Synonym: obstetrical delivery.

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"Delivery" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought I would beat you here," said Logan to Davy and his party. "Saturday I had a deed prepared to the Barrow ranch and had the judge approve the sale with the conditions of possession as stated agreed. I have it here and ready for delivery." ...

— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney

... Joseph snapped his fingers with delight, when the corpulent dame waddled up asthmatically, and announced with a wheeze that her mission was prosperous. If there had ever been doubt, there was now no more. The oracular "fetiche" had announced that the delivery of the bride to her lord might take place "on the tenth day of the ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... of the Demeter in Alexandria; yet the statue chiselled by Myrtilus had also been adorned with a diadem, and Chello had wrought the strip of gold it required. Only it had escaped his memory, because he had been paid for the work immediately after its delivery. ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... yet hath seen it, who has heard of the similitude of it? Shall the earth bring forth in a day, or shall a nation of men be born together? but Mary has brought forth the nation of England before the time of that delivery for which ...

— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

... housekeepers, like the Jimaboys. All they would have to do would be to breathe softly and make no mention of the Post-Graduate School of W. B. Then the other tenants would never know, and the postman would never know. Of course, the non-delivery of the mail might bring troublesome inquiry upon the Times advertising department, but, as Jimaboy remarked maliciously, that ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various

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