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DELIVER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deliver ... he / she / it delivers
Past simple: delivered
Past participle: delivered
-ing form: delivering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to be born
Example:
My wife had twins yesterday!
Synonyms:
bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)
"Deliver" entails doing...:
conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)
Verb group:
bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
twin (give birth to twins)
drop (give birth; used for animals)
foal (give birth to a foal)
cub (give birth to cubs)
kitten (give birth to kittens)
lamb (give birth to a lamb)
litter (give birth to a litter of animals)
pup; whelp (give birth to (a puppy))
farrow; pig (give birth to (piglets))
fawn (have fawns)
calve; have young (give birth to (a calf))
bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
delivery (the act of delivering a child)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
Example:
The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students
Synonyms:
deliver; present
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
speechify (make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
delivery (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
Example:
The students delivered a cry of joy
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Pass down
Example:
deliver a judgment
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Bring to a destination, make a delivery
Example:
our local super market delivers
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
bring; convey; fetch; get (go or come after and bring or take back)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
consign (send to an address)
discharge; drop; drop off; put down; set down; unload (remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave)
process; serve; swear out (deliver a warrant or summons to someone)
misdeliver (deliver to the wrong address)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence example:
They deliver the parcel to their parents
Derivation:
deliverer (a person who gives up or transfers money or goods)
deliverer (someone employed to make deliveries)
delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
Example:
The pitcher delivered the ball
Synonyms:
deliver; pitch
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
throw (propel through the air)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Relinquish possession or control over
Example:
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
Synonyms:
cede; deliver; give up; surrender
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
yield up (surrender, as a result of pressure or force)
sell (give up for a price or reward)
sign away; sign over (formally assign ownership of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 8
Meaning:
To surrender someone or something to another
Example:
fork over the money
Synonyms:
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
bail (deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period)
give away (formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
deliverer (a person who gives up or transfers money or goods)
delivery (the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Carry out or perform
Example:
The boxer drove home a solid left
Synonyms:
deliver; drive home
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
give (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
land (deliver (a blow))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 10
Meaning:
Hand over to the authorities of another country
Example:
They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
repatriate (send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 11
Meaning:
Free from harm or evil
Synonyms:
deliver; rescue
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "deliver" is one way to...):
bring through; carry through; pull through; save (bring into safety)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deliver"):
relieve; salvage; salve; save (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)
reprieve (relieve temporarily)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
deliverance (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)
deliverer (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)
delivery (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Save from sins
Synonyms:
deliver; redeem; save
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Domain category:
faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
deliverer (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)
Deliverer (a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29))
Context examples:
A liquid medication delivered as a mist to be inhaled as a measured dose
(Metered Dose Inhaler Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And I could see Charley Furuseth, as I had said good-bye to him that morning, lounging in a dressing-gown on the be-pillowed window couch and delivering himself of oracular and pessimistic epigrams.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It's all over, no doubt, said the Old Soldier, after listening; the dear creature has signed, sealed, and delivered, and his mind's at rest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These Martian organics could either have formed on Mars or been delivered to Mars by meteorites.
(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)
Holmes and I had listened with the utmost interest to this extraordinary statement, which had been delivered in the jerky, broken fashion of a man who is under the influence of extreme emotions.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You will deliver it at the Russian Embassy.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It is not life," he delivered himself dogmatically.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The facility which provides a setting with provisions for monitoring and delivering babies.
(Birth Facility, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-viral expression system using multifunctional plasmid DNA to deliver disease-specific to immune cells and encode peptides/proteins to modulate various diseases.
(Biotope CD, NCI Thesaurus)
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