deliver

«deliver» in Mova's school dictionary: to take letters, parcels or goods to a place or person:… — 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

verb (deliver, delivers, delivered, delivering)

meaning for a pupil

1) To deliver means to take letters, parcels or goods to a place or person: the postman delivers the post. tree →

2) To deliver a speech or talk means to give it to an audience. tree →

3) To deliver a baby means to help it be born. tree →

4) To deliver means to do what you promised: they delivered on time. tree →

5) To deliver from danger (old use) means to rescue. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: post, parcels, pizza and food deliveries; safety — do not open the door to delivery people when home alone, let an adult deal with them. In maths, delivery problems: a van delivers 24 boxes to each of 5 shops — how many in all? (multiply). At school, pupils deliver presentations to the class. Phrases: deliver a parcel, deliver a speech, home delivery, deliver on a promise.

examples

• The postman delivers our letters every morning. tree →
• The shop will deliver the new sofa on Friday. tree →
• A driver delivers 36 parcels in a morning and 28 in the afternoon. How many is that in all? tree →
• Maya delivered her talk about volcanoes to the class. tree →
• The midwife delivered the baby safely. tree →
• Don't open the door to a delivery person if you are on your own. tree →
• The team delivered the project on time. tree →
• "What should I deliver?" said Tom. tree →

note

Regular verb: delivered, delivering. Noun: delivery (plural deliveries); «deliverer» is rare — say «delivery driver». Maths: «each», «per» or «every» in delivery problems usually means multiplication or division.

In the corpora

• You learn your postcode or ZIP code, because it helps letters to be delivered quickly.
• Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.
• And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
• And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.'
• So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Trees and pragmatics

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