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deliveryn.

Brit. /dᵻˈlɪv(ə)ri/, U.S. /dəˈlɪv(ə)ri/, /diˈlɪv(ə)ri/
Forms: Middle English deleuery, Middle English delivere, Middle English deliveree, Middle English delyverey, Middle English–1500s delyuere, Middle English–1500s delyvere, Middle English– delivery, 1500s deliuere, 1500s deliuerey, 1500s delyuerey, 1500s delyuerye, 1500s–1600s deliuerie, 1500s–1600s deliuery, 1500s–1600s deliuerye, 1500s–1600s deliverie, 1500s–1600s deliverye, 1500s–1600s delyuerie, 1500s–1600s delyuery, 1600s delevery, 1600s deliverey, 1600s delyverie, 1600s delyvery, 1600s diliverie, 1600s dilivery; also Scottish pre-1700 delyvere, pre-1700 delyverye.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French delivré, delivrer.
Etymology: Apparently < Anglo-Norman and Middle French delivré, past participle of delivrer deliver v.1 Compare slightly earlier livery n., which probably influenced the present word, and also earlier deliverance n.Compare Anglo-Norman (rare) deliveré, delivré action of setting free, action of handing something over (both mid 14th cent.).
I. The act of handing over or surrendering, and related senses.
1. Law.
a. The formal or legal handing over of goods to another person; esp. the putting of property into the legal possession of another person. In early use chiefly in delivery of seisin; now chiefly in delivery of possession. Cf. livery of seisin.
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society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over
delivery1327
tradition?1538
delation1681
delegation1681
1327 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) II. 435/1 Let certaine Justices..bee assigned, to enquire..of the delivery of seisin of the said Lands.
1461–2 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 100 The seid Ser John Fastolff beyng present at deliuery of season mad to your seid besecher of the seid plase and maner of Caster, where the seid Ser John..deliuerid your seid besecher possession with his owne handes.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. i. sig. Aa.viijv/1 Goods are gotten..by deliuerie.
1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. 173 If either of the Things bartered, appear before Delivery to belong to some Third Person, the other Party may refuse to accept of it.
1866 Respondent's Return in Amer. Law Reg. (1867) new ser. 6 530/1 A debtor residing in Connecticut made a transfer of property situated in that state to a New York creditor.., and the transfer was consummated by an actual delivery of possession to the creditor.
1905 Michigan Law Rev. 3 678 Where the defence is that the contract is a wagering one, and not intended for the actual sale and delivery of the property, it is the duty of the courts to go behind the contract and examine the facts.
2011 P. J. Galea Malta in W. Faber & B. Lurger National Reps. Transfer of Movables in Europe VI. 487 In the case of immovable property, the rule is that delivery of possession takes place on publication of the Notarial Deed of Sale, saving where there is a judicial sale by auction—where different rules apply.
b. The actual or notional handing over of a deed, showing the formal intention of the maker of the deed to be bound by it.In quot. 1635 in extended use, with reference to a pledge.
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1618 T. Ashe tr. E. Coke in Fasciculus Florum (new ed.) sig. N4v Deliuery of a deed or charter maketh it speake.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. xiii. 87 Whereof we have already assurance, yea deliverie, and seisure, in that the Canaanit the devill is driven out from thence by Iesus our unconquered Captaine.
1760 Auction II. xviii. 132 That Evening was appointed for the signing and Delivery of the Deed.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Deed If I have sealed my deed, and after I deliver it to him to whom it is made, or to some other by his appointment, and say nothing, this is a good delivery.
1929 U.S. Board Tax Appeals Rep. 13 783 When Burke, as an officer of the company, and pursuant to a vote of the company, executed the deed to himself, as an individual, he then and there made delivery of the deed from the company to himself as a grantee, and thereafter retained it in that capacity.
2014 Irish Jurist 51 202 In the present case, the delivery of the deed involved a clear representation that it had been signed by the defendants in the presence of the witness and had, accordingly, been validly executed by them as a deed.
2. The act of giving up possession of a person or thing (esp. a castle, town, prisoner, etc.); surrender. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun]
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vacating1820
?c1452 in Paston Lett. (1904) I. 107 The seid Duc of Somerset..had made a promysse..to the said Duc of Burgoyne..of the delyverey of the Toun of Cales... He resceyved and had at the delyverey of Anjoy and Mayn iijxx. xijm. [i.e. 72,000] frankes.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 48/2 The counsel therfore had sent him..to require her the deliuerye of him [sc. her child].
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 181 The deliverie of the rocke of Saint Julian and of the fort.
1780 Impartial Hist. War Amer. 147 Marching directly to Boston, there to demand a delivery of the powder and stores, and in case of refusal to attack the troops.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 158 The arrest of Trimbak, and his delivery to the British Government, were declared to be the indispensable conditions of preserving undisturbed amicable relations with the Peshwa.
2018 CE Noticias Financieras Eng. Newswire (Nexis) 9 Apr. Lula da Silva's decision to delay his delivery to the police 26 hours after he was accused of passive corruption and laundering of money.
3.
a. The action of conveying and handing over something, esp. the delivering of letters, parcels, or goods. Also: an act or instance of this.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another
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consignation1612
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driveaway1917
society > travel > transport > [noun] > delivery
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1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 140 For the deliveree of the said stuff and bedding.
1556 Certaine Instructions in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 310 Hauing receiued any priuie letters..you shall..let the deliuerie of them at your arriuing in Russia.
1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. i. 11 The Investitures of Bishops and Abbots..had been originally given by the delivery of the Pastoral Ring and Staffe.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 652 Extraordinary charges for the delivery of goods.
1850 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. during 30 Years' Peace II. iv. xiv. 183 The convenience of two or three deliveries of letters per day.
1903 Savannah (Georgia) Morning News 28 Feb. 9/4 There has been a sturdy and healthy increase in the gross receipts of the postoffices in the locality in which free delivery has been put in operation.
2003 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 16 Apr. The giant grey buildings..are floodlit to allow staff to work through the night assembling palleted loads for delivery to supermarkets.
b. figurative. The act of providing or imparting something, esp. something that is promised or expected.
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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G2v Another Error is in the manner of the tradition and deliuerie of knowledge. View more context for this quotation
1753 W. Warburton Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. vi. 231 It imports us little to be solicitous about the Delivery of Scripture-truths.
1848 Minutes Comm. Council Educ. 1847–8 II. 194 in Parl. Papers L. 1 The absence of method and arrangement in the delivery of the lesson..too clearly betokened teachers little accustomed to prepare themselves for their daily work.
1977 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 1 a/2 His immediate delivery of his promise to pardon draft evaders didn't set so well with the majority of persons contacted after the White House announcement.
2020 Sun (Electronic ed.) (Nexis) 1 Feb. Most of the major changes to the shape of government departments being planned have now been put on hold, for fear of making the delivery of Brexit even harder.
II. Rescue, release, or liberation, and related senses.
4.
a. Law. The action of emptying a prison of prisoners in order to bring them to trial at an assize court or, occasionally, another court; = jail-delivery n. 1a. Now historical.Recorded earliest in jail-delivery n. 1a.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > clearing of jail by bringing to trial
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1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 377 Paied to the Justices of Deliuerance for the Gaole Delyuere.
1594 T. Sackville & J. Fortescue Let. 18 Apr. in Cecil Papers (Hatfield House CP 26/29) f. 49 If on monday farther continuance be made then the deliuery of the gaoles being full of seminaryes and other traytours of that kind wt other great malefactours must rest in London vnproceaded vppon.
1664 J. Exton Maritime Dicæol. i. vi. 27 Justices of Assises being likewise appointed..and gaining a further power of taking Attaints, Juries, and Certificates, and delivery of Gaols.
1774 Public Advertiser 25 Feb. The Session of Gaol Delivery is adjourned till To-morrow Morning, for the Trial of Misdemeanors and Delivery of the Gaol.
1813 Proc. Old Bailey 13 Jan. 95/2 Zenophon Hearn Basham was indicted for that he,..at the Sessions for the delivery of Newgate,..was sentenced to be transported..and..was at large in this kingdom, before the expiration of the said term.
1870 Rep. Court Queen's Bench (Ontario) 28 4 At the General Sessions of the Delivery of the Gaol of Carleton,..Patrick James Whelan, convicted of a felony, is ordered to be hanged by the neck till he be dead.
1901 C. S. Kenny tr. in Select. Cases Illustr. Eng. Law 141 At the delivery of Newgate..it was found that a chaplain se defendendo slew a man.
2019 E. P. Kamali Felony & Guilty Mind in Medieval Eng. Introd. 18 The assizes began to be involved in the delivery of gaols between 1273 and 1330.
b. The condition of being freed (from confinement, danger, evil, illness, etc.); the action of freeing or rescuing; liberation, rescue, release. Also: an instance of this. Frequently with reference to God as the liberator; cf. deliverer n. 1.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun]
alesingOE
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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxiii. f. cliiiiv The Quene made assyduat laboure for the delyuerye of the Kynge her husbonde.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 103 Thankes geuynge to almyghty god for his delyuery and preseruation from so many imminent perels.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 90 A servant of his..by force attempting his Lords delivery.
1650 A. Ross tr. J. Wolleb Abridgm. Christian Divinitie i. xviii. 123 Christs death is called the cause of eternal Life, so far as it is delivery from all evil.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xi. 165 Here is the brave man to whom I owe my delivery.
1872 W. H. Ley Script. Stud. 177 The cleansing of the leper, signifying delivery from guilt.
1978 O. Crawford Execution ii. 17 Her delivery from Birkenau was hazy.
2011 J. McDonald Beyond Belief i. 13 He calls out to God, and God is responsible for his delivery.
5.
a. The process of childbirth; the act of giving birth; (also) the process of being born.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery
teamOE
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natural childbirth1933
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. ii. fol. xxviiv Rachel bearing Beniamin..by and by vpon hir deliuery dyed.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 581 When the young ones [of the panther] begin to stirre in the dams belly, and gather strength for birth, they canot tarry the iust time of their deliuery, but teare out the womb or bag wherein they lie with the sharpnes of their nails and therefore their dam is forced for the auoiding of pain to cast them forth of the womb both blind and deformed.
1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 29 My prayers shall attend your ladies good delivery of a brave boy.
1765 J. Reynolds Let. 14 Mar. in E. Greg Reynolds–Rathbone Diaries & Lett. (1905) 185 It was with great pleasure we heard of thy Wife's safe delivery.
1875 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Jan. 44/1 I have had two cases recently where the mother suffered from small-pox at the time of her delivery.
2005 misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 27 Mar. 2020) 6 June I had an epidural, so I didn't feel nearly the pain during delivery that I would have with natural childbirth.
b. figurative. The process of bringing into being an idea, piece of work, etc.; the action of producing something.
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a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary (1641) iii. sig. F4 My head labours with the pangs of delivery.
1741 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) X. 485 We must not say the pains of delivery, but the pleasures, the person in question being never so much in his element as when he is publishing invectives.
1937 E. Newman Life Richard Wagner xxviii. 587 Wagner's painful delivery of what he had always called his ‘child of sorrow’ [i.e. the full score of Tristan] having at last been accomplished.
2010 Italica 87 698 The difficult gestation and prolonged delivery of Ortese's short novel.
c. The action of assisting or intervening in the birth of a child or other young mammal, typically involving the use of manipulation, instruments, or surgery; an instance of this; a birth of this kind.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > by midwife
midwifinga1382
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1660 J. S. Andromana iii. i. 8 I am with child to hear the news: Pr'ythee Be quick in the delivery.]
1719 tr. P. Dionis Gen. Treat. Midwifery iii. xxiii. 239 Yet 'tis often absolutely necessary for the Surgeon to put it [sc. the infant's head] back, and bring the Child away by the Feet, because the Delivery is more speedy.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 323 Injury in a laborious, hasty or injudicious delivery.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 483 I therefore did not conceive myself justified..in proceeding to immediate delivery.
1877 G. H. Dadd Amer. Cattle Doctor (new ed.) 90 The head must then be properly placed, the legs drawn outward, and the delivery may be accomplished with every prospect of bringing forth a live calf.
1889 W. S. Playfair Treat. Sci. & Pract. Midwifery (ed. 7) II. iv. ii. 163 No other means of effecting artificial delivery was known.
1927 Lancet 20 Aug. 380/2 Even where labour came on spontaneously there was an advantage in Cæsarean delivery.
1971 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Nov. 349/1 Forceps were used in six cases, ventouse delivery was performed in seven, and caesarean section in four.
2017 MailOnline (Nexis) 18 July The lacerations are caused by nicks and cuts from scalpels, forceps, and other instruments used by doctors while performing a surgically-assisted delivery.
6. The process of withdrawing a casting or pattern from a mould (cf. deliver v.1 9); an instance of this. Also: a taper given to a pattern to facilitate withdrawal from the mould; = draw taper n. at draw- comb. form 1. Now rare.
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1847 Mechanics' Mag. 282/1 Black-lead or French chalk may be used as a facing, to secure a perfect delivery from the mould in the ordinary way.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 683/2 Delivery (Founding), the draft or allowance by which a pattern is made to free itself from close lateral contact with the sand of the mold as it is lifted. Also called draw-taper.
1910 Mech. World 10 June 270/3 Allied to this is often the question of freedom of delivery, taper or no taper, or the presence of projecting parts.
1940 Connoisseur Sept. 105 The glasses of Ennion and his fellow-artists were never equalled, whether for form, ornament, or technique of delivery from the mould.
III. An utterance, emission, discharge, or projection, and related senses.
7.
a. The utterance or enunciation of words; the delivering of a speech, song, etc. Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun]
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1577 J. Knewstub Lect. 20th Chapter Exodus i. 3 The maiestie of the Lord should visibly come forth after a glorious maner at the deliuery of the word.
1670 D. Lloyd State Worthies (ed. 2) 22 One thing he advised young men to take care of in their publick deliveries.
1772 W. Huddesford in Life A. Wood 255 in Lives Eminent Antiquaries II. A.W. paid him the Compliment of due Attention, during the Delivery of his Speech.
1897 F. Frankfort Moore Jessamy Bride xi. 105 Garrick's gestures during the delivery of the song were marvelously ingenious.
2009 Economist 4 Apr. 58 Journalists were tipped off about the speech before its delivery on March 24th but chose not to cover it.
b. The manner of utterance or enunciation in public speaking or singing.Chiefly with modifying adjective.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > delivery
deliverance1553
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > voice-production
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1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Peroration 268 Commonesse for euerie man, beawtie for the learned, brauerie to rauish, borowing to enlarge our naturall speche, & rediest deliuerie.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1974) VIII. 222 Meriton..hath a strange knack of a grave, serious delivery.
1769 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 (1848) 679/2 His delivery, though unconstrained, was not negligent.
1892 Sat. Rev. 15 Oct. 443/1 Few men of his generation had a greater fund of talk or a more telling delivery.
1931 Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois) 31 Oct. 52/1 His terse delivery and sly sense of humour sharply set off the significance of his subject matter.
2003 Echoes July 16/3 It's not often that I hear somebody sing a Donny track and do it justice, but Shaun tore the tune apart and sent shivers down my spine with his heart breaking delivery.
c. In extended use: the performance of a musical rendition, dance, etc.; the manner of such a performance.
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1882 P. D. Townsend tr. O. Jahn Life Mozart II. xxi. 108 We may, indeed, doubt whether he [sc. Mozart] had not some idea of a melodramatic delivery of the music.
1937 Chicago Tribune 27 Oct. 17/6 Bouquets to the modest violins for their classical purity of tone in the Bach Air and for their fantastically perfect delivery of the first phrase of the Rimsky-Korsakow Gypsy song.
2014 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sport section) 10 With her trademark verve, graceful delivery and unflickering precision, the 14-year-old from Romania set the bar to which future generations 
of gymnasts would aspire.
2020 A. Osterweis in S. Manning et al. Futures Dance Stud. 445 The audience is made aware of aspiration through its absence, the sense that some quality is missing from the dancers' delivery of the movement.
8.
a. The action of discharging a missile or of firing a weapon.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > instance of
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > discharging of missile weapon
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1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E2 Set battels are very rare, except it fall out where there are many trees, where eyther part may haue some hope of defence, after the deliuerie of euery arrow, in leaping behind some or other.
1724 A. Crossly Signification Most Things in Heraldry 41 By reason of the smart delivery from the Bow, the Enemy is put to hazard a great way off.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 109 The peril..from the delivery of the spear.
1937 Cavalry Jrnl. 46 151/2 In the delivery of machine gun fire against aerial targets, continuous automatic fire is habitual.
2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 12 The Supreme Allied Commander Europe's strike plan would mean the quasi-simultaneous delivery of somewhere between 500 and 1000 weapons..on target.
b. The discharge or flow of a substance (esp. a liquid) from a pipe, valve, or other opening.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiii. iv. 468 They dig certaine square pooles to receive the water, two hundred foot every way, and the same tenne foot deep: in which they leave five severall sluces or passages for the deliverie of the water into the mines.
1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 46 The delivery of your Water into a convenient Trough.
1862 Philos. Trans. 1861 (Royal Soc.) 151 637 The delivery of gas of uniform pressure, at the two stopcocks regulating the supply to the two flames, was secured.
1992 Oceanus Winter 44/2 Flattened, rough-surface lava fields that result from extremely rapid delivery of fluid lava.
2016 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 40 318/1 Use of C02 cylinders with dip tubes would cause the apparatus to freeze quickly, halting delivery of gas to the chamber.
c.
(a) In a ball game, esp. Cricket or Baseball: the action of throwing or bowling a ball.Cf. quot. 1834 at sense 8a.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throw so as to fall on a particular place
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1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 22 Very few Bowlers run alike before the delivery of the Ball.
1837 W. Martin Bk. of Sports 96 If the hand be above the shoulder in the delivery, the umpire must call ‘no ball’.
1975 G. Sullivan Better Softball for Boys & Girls 28/1 What's important in pitching is coordinating your footwork with the delivery of the ball.
1999 Cricketer Mar. 43/2 They wired him up with an electro-goniometer to examine any straightening of the arm at the point of delivery.
(b) A throw or bowl of the ball in a game, esp. (Cricket, Baseball, etc.) with the course, speed, etc., of this considered as a measure of its quality or effectiveness. Cf. ball n.1 2c.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled
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1847 Times 9 Aug. 8/5 It was the desire of the manager of the game on the part of England to ascertain which of the two deliveries would be better played by the Kent eleven.
1868 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 24) 54 Mr. Jupp..played Southerton's ‘curly’ deliveries with consummate skill.
1882 Daily Tel. 19 May Crossland at 68 came on with his fast deliveries.
1925 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-News 20 July 6/3 Decker, short stop, put two men out on a second by the fast delivery of the ball by ‘Ham’.
2013 Cricketer Sept. 43/2 Every one in 12 of the deliveries he has faced in the 2013 Ashes has been smacked to the boundary.
9. The ability to move readily and quickly; nimbleness, agility. Obsolete.figurative in quot. 1762.
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the world > movement > bodily movement > [noun] > qualities of bodily movement > agility or nimbleness
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1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia ii. vii. f. 130v Not Musidorus, no nor any man living (I thinke) could..deliver that Strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully.
a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 6 The Duke had the neater limbes and freer delivery.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 104 It has the greatest freedom of pencil, the happiest delivery of nature.
1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 30 June 689/2 The more than feminine grace and delivery with which our distinguished guest can perform the smallest, nicest, neatest, and most trivial operations.
10. The action of reporting or stating something; communication, statement. Cf. deliverance n. 6. N.E.D. (1895) describes this sense as obsolete in the late 19th cent., but it has since regained some currency, perhaps influenced by sense 3a.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun]
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1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. E2v The order hereafter to be obserued in deliuerie of examples.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 9 I make a broken deliuerie of the Businesse. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxvii. 145 I will forbear the delivery of many matters, that possibly might bring much contentment.
1832 Amer. Jurist & Law Mag. July 10 Were integrity, in the delivery of the facts known, supposable, the parties would be the best witnesses.
1969 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 11 811 My discussion owes a great deal to Morse's work—to his detailed delivery of the facts of Stevens' life.
2013 Tobacco Control 22 9/1 Quitting rates were low among Chinese physicians, and the delivery of advice on quitting smoking was not common.
2019 Naval War Coll. Rev. 72 iv. 14 Help probably lies much less in the delivery of the facts..than in identifying the questions about strategy that those conducting it should ask.

Compounds

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a. As a modifier, designating a vehicle, person, or institution that conveys goods to their recipients, as in delivery cart, delivery truck, delivery van, delivery man, etc. Cf. sense 3a.
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1817 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 20 Dec. A parcel which,..after its arrival in town, was stolen from the delivery cart.
1856 E. C. Gaskell Let. ?29 Apr. (1966) 388 I have just sent you off a parcel by the Delivery Company.
1882 G. W. Peck Peck's Fun 88 Smith took them [sc. the goods] out to put them in the delivery wagon.
1889 Daily News 11 Dec. 3/2 Carmen's wages:—Delivery men: Driving, 1s. per day and 7d. per ton.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 11/1 For the purpose of manufacturing in England motor-cars, motor-omnibuses, and delivery-vans.
1949 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 40 165 Alfred quit school..at 16, went to work as a delivery boy for a few months,..and enlisted in the army.
2000 B. Alexander Kiss of Darkness v. 72 ‘I need you to sign right here,’ the delivery guy said, extending a clipboard towards her.
2019 @fieldersonmixer 18 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Mar. 2020) Don't mind me just staring out the window waiting for the delivery truck.
b. As a modifier, designating a place to which goods are delivered or transported before being sent to or collected by their recipients, as in delivery office, delivery port.
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1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 314 Our proper Delivery Port..was at Madagascar.
1885 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. 2/5 A small sample trunk, containing $2,800 worth of jewelry..was stolen last Tuesday night from the delivery office of Westcott's Express.
1946 Western Star (Newfoundland) 4 Oct. 7/3 If a message is received it may stay at the delivery office for days before you are apprised of the fact, and then, irrespective of the distance you have to travel, you are obliged to call for it.
2007 alt.toys.transformers 18 Apr. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 8 Apr. 2020) They don't update [the status on the website]..until the package arrives at and is scanned at the next depo, usually the delivery hub closest to you.
C2.
delivery box n. a chamber fed by a pump or series of pumps from which a supply of liquid can be provided.
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1847 Mechanics' Mag. 24 July 91/2 The delivery-box is fitted with similar contrivances to send the water raised, out into the river.
1945 U.S. Patent 2,382,797 1/2 An expansible chamber pump having a conduit connecting the chamber downwardly to a horizontal inlet and delivery box.
1987 Bull. Environmental Contamination & Toxicol. 38 500 A continuous flow system was used (Fig. 1) in which the flow of seawater was kept constant by means of a simple delivery box.
delivery date n. (a) the date on which goods that have been ordered arrive; (also) the date on which such goods are expected to arrive; (b) the date on which a piece of work is due to be completed.
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1862 Blackburn Standard 24 Sept. The rates to be those which may be current at the delivery dates.
1900 Glasgow Herald 28 Feb. 11/2 No Clyde warships are at present behind time, and most of them will be well ahead of the delivery dates.
2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 1248/3 Forward scheduling is most often used when the operations department sets the delivery date for a job, rather than the sales or marketing departments.
2007 Mariner's Mirror 93 48 About half of a supply of 30,000 Memel Crown pipe staves undertaken by Isaac Solly in November 1808 outran its delivery date.
delivery officer n. an officer or official responsible for making deliveries, esp. a postman or postwoman.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > person
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1839 Era 22 Sept. 618/4 Why, the delivery-officer, who has brandies under his charge to the amount of a million of money, enjoys a salary of sixty-five pounds a year!
1932 Instr. Recruiting Officers U.S. Navy ix. 46 The proper procedure in these cases is for the substation to instruct the delivery officer to deliver his prisoner to the main station.
1953 Daily Tel. 15 July The words ‘here's the postman’ unfailingly arouse pleasurable excitement in the household. It was therefore distressing to receive a letter from a local Head Post Office referring to him as the ‘delivery officer’.
2012 @rozhughes 25 July in twitter.com (accessed 16 Jan. 2019) Apparently postmen aren't postmen anymore. They are delivery officers. Delivery officer Pat and his black & white cat isn't the same.
delivery order n. (chiefly in shipping) a document from a person or company instructing the holder to transport goods to the recipient.
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1816 J. Campbell Rep. Cases Nisi Prius 4 237 The plaintiffs wrote, and delivered to Bromer a delivery order for the rosin, in the following words [etc.].
1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 245/1 Ownership in goods can be transferred by mere endorsement of a bill of lading or a delivery order.
2016 Inside Army 15 Aug. 8 The first delivery order will be for 12 vehicles.
delivery paralysis n. Medicine rare (now historical) weakness or paralysis of a muscle or muscles in a newborn infant, typically resulting from injury to peripheral nerves during delivery; cf. birth palsy n. at birth n.1 Compounds 4. [After German Entbindungslähmung (1874 in the passage translated in quot. 1876).]
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1876 tr. W. H. Erb in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XI. 562 That form of paralysis..in newly-born children..which we should call delivery-paralysis (Entbindungslähmung).
2000 P. J. Koehler et al. Neurol. Eponyms xxxii. 210 According to Erb this may explain also why the infraspinatus muscle frequently is involved in ‘delivery paralysis’.
delivery pipe n. a pipe through which water or another liquid is ejected, esp. from a pump; (also) a pipe through which water or other fluid is supplied.
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1811 Times 29 Nov. The large engine at the gun-wharf, worked by 50 men, threw the water 120 feet distance from a delivery pipe the mouth of which was one inch and a quarter diameter.
1895 Daily News 14 Sept. 5/1 It was noticed that this water had the power to dissolve the lead of the delivery pipes.
1943 E. H. Lewitt Thermodynamics applied to Heat Engines (ed. 3) v. 104 The compressed air delivered from the air compressor is hot..but it is cooled in the after-cooler before entering the delivery pipes.
2005 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 20 Nov. Put a submersible pump in a pool at ground level and feed the delivery pipe to the top basin and adjust the flow.
delivery roller n. (in a machine) a roller which conveys the object that has been worked on out of the machine at the end of a process.
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1825 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 9 353 In Plate XVI. fig. 4,..a, is the thread proceeding from the copt to the delivery rollers.
1903 U.S. Patent 733,626 2/2 One advantage of controlling the retarding and rewinding of the delivery-roller by a weight or spring is that this method obviates entirely the loss of power.
2015 I. A. Elhawary in R. Sinclair Textiles & Fashion ix. 200 At the other end, the delivery rollers pull the fibres faster than the pins are moving.
delivery room n. a specially equipped room in a hospital in which women give birth.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > rooms for childbirth
delivery room1793
labour ward1827
birthing room1925
1793 Laws Edinb. Lying-in Hosp. 13 The Physicians of the Hospital shall be required to draw up a few general precepts for the management of deliveries, in the Latin language. These shall be painted on a board hung up in the delivery room.
1914 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. (Mag.) 8/1 After putting on a white gown the visitor was taken up in the elevator to the delivery room.
2002 P. Vincent Baby Catcher ii. 75 I assisted laboring women in a white-tiled delivery room.
delivery system n. (a) the means by which a weapon such as a bomb, missile, chemical or biological agent, etc., is conveyed to its intended target; (b) (more widely) a means by which something is delivered to a location or recipient.
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1948 U.S. Naval War Coll. Information Service for Officers 1 11 No amount of attention and effort spent on the bomb itself could overcome weakness in the delivery system caused, for example, by unreliability of the aircraft or its crew.
1968 Listener 19 Dec. 813/1 After the war, the Soviet Union had two defence priorities: the construction of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
1984 Listener 25 Oct. 17/1 Broadcasting satellites, whether they pump signals direct into the home or through the head-ends of cable services, will become an increasingly important delivery system.
1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio vi. 41 Hollowed-out retroviruses were commonly used in gene therapy and genetic research as delivery systems for corrective genes.
2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 Feb. 20/2 Biological weapons could be scarier still, particularly if Saddam employed a nonconventional delivery system, such as aerosol sprayers hidden along major roads.
2014 Vanity Fair Dec. 135/1 It was the marriage of digital photography and the Internet that provided the delivery system for potential mass proliferation [of the selfie].
delivery tube n. chiefly Chemistry a tube for conveying a gas (less commonly, a liquid) into a container.
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1843 U.S. Patent 3,023 2/1 The delivery tube, G, I surround at its outer end by a hollow nozzle.
1847 M. Faraday in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 31 412 A little bromine was put into the horizontal part of the delivery tube, and then air passed over it.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students i. 14 A stream of gas issues from the delivery tube, and is collected by water displacement.
2003 Weed Sci. 51 611/2 Irrigation was accomplished by bubbling air into delivery tubes inside the reservoir to drive water up to the surface.
delivery valve n. a valve controlling the flow of water or other fluid from a pump.
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1825 Morning Post 11 July All the bolts in the delivery valve, which are made of iron, were found to have been eaten away, and rendered useless.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 638/2 You open suction and delivery valves, run a swabbing-brush over the rod, and open up the stop-valve.
2005 A. Bonnick & D. Newbold Pract. Approach Motor Vehicle Engin. & Maintenance (ed. 2) iii. 112/1 Further upward movement of the plunger forces the fuel through the delivery valve, injector pipes and injectors into the combustion chamber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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