delivery

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of conveying or delivering.
2. n. Something delivered, as a shipment or package.
3. n. The act of transferring to another.
4. n. Law A formal act of transferring ownership of property to another: delivery of a deed.
5. n. The act of giving up; surrender.
6. n. The act or manner of throwing or discharging.
7. n. The act of giving birth; parturition.
8. n. Utterance or enunciation: The historic speech required but two minutes in delivery.
9. n. The act or manner of speaking or singing: a folk singer's casual delivery.
10. n. The act of releasing or rescuing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of setting free; the act of freeing from bondage, danger, or evil of any kind; release; rescue; deliverance.
2. n. A giving or passing from one to another; the act of transferring or handing over to another: as, the delivery of goods or of a deed; the delivery of a parcel or a letter.
3. n. Surrender; a giving up.
4. n. In law, the placing of one person in legal possession of a thing by another.
5. n. Aid given in the act of parturition; the bringing forth of offspring; childbirth.
6. n. Utterance; enunciation; manner of speaking or singing.
7. n. The act of sending or putting forth; emission; discharge: as, the delivery of the ball in base-ball, cricket, etc.; the delivery of fire or of a charge in battle; the delivery of a blow from the shoulder.
8. n. Capacity for pouring out or disburdening of contents: as, the delivery of a pipe.
9. n. Free motion or use of the limbs; activity; agility.
10. n. In founding, allowance or free play given to a pattern so that it can be readily lifted from the mold. Also called draw-taper.
11. n. In a cotton-mill, the quantity of sliver delivered from a machine.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of conveying something
2. n. The item which has been conveyed
3. n. The act of giving birth
4. n. A pitching motion
5. n. A thrown pitch
6. n. The manner of speaking
7. n. administration of a drug
8. n. A ball bowled
9. n. The process of throwing a stone
10. adj. Related to delivery.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation.
2. n. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution.
3. n. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking
4. n. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
5. n. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
6. n. The act or manner of delivering a ball.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
2. n. the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
3. n. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
4. n. the act of delivering a child
5. n. the event of giving birth
6. n. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
7. n. recovery or preservation from loss or danger