Hypertext Webster Gateway: "delivery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Delivery \De*liv"er*y\, n.; pl. {Deliveries}.
1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release;
liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his
dungeon.
2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of
the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the
delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods,
of letters.
3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a
good delivery; a clear delivery.
4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or
extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Neater limbs and freer delivery. --Sir H.
Wotton.
6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher
has a swift delivery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pronunciation \Pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F.
pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See {Pronounce}.]
1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving
the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the
pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or
indistinct pronunciation.
2. The mode of uttering words or sentences.
3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly
with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called {delivery}.
--J. Q. Adams.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
delivery
n 1: the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or
mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: {bringing}]
2: the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"
3: 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" [syn: {manner of speaking}, {speech}]
4: the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession)
from one party to another [syn: {livery}, {legal transfer}]
5: the act of delivering a child [syn: {obstetrical delivery}]
6: (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a
batter [syn: {pitch}]
7: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
deliverance of mankind": "a surgeon's job is the saving of
lives" [syn: {rescue}, {deliverance}, {saving}]
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