delivery

Noun
  1. The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) (synset 100318033)
    "his reluctant delivery of bad news"
    is a type of: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation - the act of moving something from one location to another
    subtypes:
    • airdrop - delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft
    • consignment - the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
    • handing over, passage - the act of passing something to another person
    • post - the delivery and collection of letters and packages
    • service, service of process, serving - the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
    same as: bringing
  2. The event of giving birth (synset 107335222)
    "she had a difficult delivery"
    is a type of: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity - the event of being born
  3. Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally (synset 107085523)
    "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
    is a type 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
    subtypes:
    • 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
    is a part of: paralanguage, paralinguistic communication - the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings
    same as: manner of speaking, speech
  4. The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another (synset 101110658)
    is a type of: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying - act of transferring property title from one person to another
    subtypes:
    • surrender - the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
    • bailment - the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
    same as: legal transfer, livery
  5. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter (synset 100107092)
    referred to in: 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
    is a type of: throw - the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
    subtypes:
    • balk - an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
    • ball - a pitch that is not in the strike zone
    • beanball, beaner - a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head
    • 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
    • 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
    • duster - a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
    • bullet, fastball, heater, hummer, smoke - (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
    • knuckleball, knuckler - a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin
    • overhand pitch - a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder
    • passed ball - a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base
    • screwball - a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
    • sinker - a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate
    • 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
    • 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
    • submarine ball, submarine pitch - a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead
    • wild pitch - an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base
    same as: pitch
  6. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger (synset 100094303)
    "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
    is a type of: recovery, retrieval - the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
    subtypes:
    • lifesaving - saving the lives of drowning persons
    • redemption, salvation - (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
    • reclamation, reformation - rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
    • salvage - the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
    • salvage - the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
    • 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
    same as: deliverance, rescue, saving
  7. The act of delivering a child (synset 100043279)
    is a type of: act, deed, human action, human activity - something that people do or cause to happen
    subtypes:
    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
    same as: obstetrical delivery

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