delivery

«delivery» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Taking letters, parcels or goods to the place they are… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a delivery, deliveries)

meaning for a pupil

1) Taking letters, parcels or goods to the place they are sent to. tree →

2) Something that is delivered: "We got a delivery." tree →

3) The way someone speaks to an audience or bowls a ball in cricket. tree →

4) The birth of a baby. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means childbirth, the time when a woman gives birth. Interpretation: Isaiah uses birth pangs as a picture of Israel's suffering without success, and later tradition connects such pain with hope of redemption. In the primary lessons: In everyday life, delivery drivers bring parcels, food and shopping; some charge a delivery fee. In maths, delivery problems ask about time, distance, cost and how many items per van. In cricket, a delivery is one ball bowled. Phrases: home delivery, free delivery, delivery van, delivery driver, pizza delivery, on delivery.

examples

• Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been at Thy presence, O LORD. (Prophets ISA.26.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• The delivery arrived this morning. tree →
• Free delivery on orders over 50 dollars. tree →
• The delivery driver left the parcel at the door. tree →
• We ordered pizza for delivery. tree →
• The van makes 30 deliveries a day. tree →
• Her speech had a clear, confident delivery. tree →
• The bowler's next delivery was very fast. tree →

note

Countable: one delivery, two deliveries (y to ies). The verb is "deliver". Safety: do not open the door to a delivery person if you are home alone; tell an adult. In maths, "free delivery" means no extra cost is added; otherwise add the delivery charge to the total.

In the corpora

• Without that delivery the blossom would never become an apple.
• A real worker or delivery person will come back later or leave a note.
• People who want to get into a home sometimes pretend to be workers or delivery drivers.
• Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.
• It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «delivery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.