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Meaning of delivery

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  delivery
      n 1: the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods
           or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn:
           {delivery}, {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},
         {delivery}]
      4: the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession)
         from one party to another [syn: {delivery}, {livery}, {legal
         transfer}]
      5: (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a
         batter [syn: {pitch}, {delivery}]
      6: 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}, {delivery}, {saving}]
      7: the act of delivering a child [syn: {delivery}, {obstetrical
         delivery}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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