delivery
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 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
- 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.