delivery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=liv=er=y
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

delivery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the delivering of letters etc. b a regular distribution of letters etc. (two deliveries a day). c something delivered.
2 a the process of childbirth. b an act of this.
3 deliverance.
4 a an act of throwing, esp. of a cricket ball. b the style of such an act (a good delivery).
5 the act of giving or surrendering (delivery of the town to the enemy).
6 a the uttering of a speech etc. b the manner or style of such a delivery (a measured delivery).
7 Law a the formal handing over of property. b the transfer of a deed to a grantee or a third party.

Idiom

take delivery of receive (something purchased).

Etymology

ME f. AF delivree fem. past part. of delivrer (as DELIVER)

THESAURUS

delivery

Emancipation Proclamation, abalienation, accommodation, accordance, accouchement, affranchisement, alienation, amortization, amortizement, articulation, assignation, assignment, attack, award, awarding, bargain and sale, barter, bearing, bequeathal, bestowal, bestowment, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, break, breakout, cession, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, communication, concession, conduction, conferment, conferral, confinement, consignation, consignment, contagion, contribution, convection, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, demise, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, disenthrallment, disposal, disposition, dissemination, distribution, donation, emancipation, emergence, endowment, enfeoffment, enfranchisement, enunciation, escape, escapism, evasion, exchange, execution, export, exportation, expression, expulsion, extradition, extrication, flight, freeing, furnishment, gay liberation, genesis, getaway, gifting, giving, giving birth, grant, granting, hatching, having a baby, impartation, impartment, import, importation, interchange, investiture, issuance, issue, jailbreak, labor, leak, leakage, lease and release, liberality, liberation, lifesaving, manumission, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, multiparity, mutual transfer, nascency, nativity, offer, osmosis, outlet, parturition, passage, passing over, performance, perfusion, phonation, presentation, presentment, prisonbreak, pronunciation, provision, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, rescue, retrieval, riddance, sale, salvage, salvation, saving, setting at liberty, setting-free, settlement, settling, spread, spreading, subscription, supplying, surrender, the Nativity, the stork, trading, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transport, transportation, transposal, transposition, travail, travel, utterance, vent, vesting, vocalization, voicing, vouchsafement

ROGET THESAURUS

delivery

Voice

N voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology, vocal, phonetic, oral, ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous, euphonious, how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman, the organ of the soul, thy voice is a celestial melody.

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Giving

N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.