delivery
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(noun) the act of delivering a child |
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Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
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Related Words: C-section, abdominal delivery, caesarean, caesarean section, cesarean, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section, deed, effort, exploit, feat, midwifery |
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(noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" |
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Synonyms: bringing |
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Related Words: consignment, conveyance, handing over, passage, service, service of process, serving, transfer, transferral, transportation |
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(noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
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Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
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Related Words: bailment, conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying, surrender |
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(noun) the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery" |
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Related Words: birth, breech birth, breech delivery, nascence, nascency, nativity |
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(noun) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
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Synonyms: pitch |
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Related Words: balk, ball, beanball, beaner, bender, breaking ball, bullet, change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball, change-up, curve, curve ball, duster, fastball, heater, hummer, knuckleball, knuckler, off-speed pitch, screwball, sinker, smoke, strike, submarine ball, submarine pitch, throw, wild pitch |
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(noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind" or "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" |
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Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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Related Words: liberation, lifesaving, reclamation, recovery, redemption, reformation, release, retrieval, salvage, salvation, search and rescue mission |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
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Related Words: address, catch, elocution, expressive style, inflection, prosody, shibboleth, style, tone, tone of voice, tongue |
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