(v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
(v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
(v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
(v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
(v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
(v. t.) To discover; to show.
(v. t.) To deliberate.
(v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.
(v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Example Sentences:
(1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(3) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(4) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(6) UN internal investigators delivered a report to the then secretary general, Kofi Annan, but it was not published.
(7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(8) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(9) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(10) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(11) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(12) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
(13) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
(14) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(15) We want to work with others to deliver the firepower needed to challenge the Eurosceptic establishment.
(16) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(17) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(18) Radiation-dose predictions derived from biodistribution studies indicate that a higher tumor dose may be delivered using the SA method than with either 131I-NP-4 IgG or F(ab')2 alone.
(19) HFV was delivered at frequencies (f) of 3, 6, and 9 Hz with a ventilator that generated known tidal volumes (VT) independent of respiratory system impedance.
(20) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
Milkman
Definition:
(n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nobel prize-winning author's novel Song of Solomon, which traces the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead, was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a school in Shelby, Michigan in May following complaints from parents about sexual and violent content.
(2) His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman" - appraising Gary Neville's parentage in 1996.
(3) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(4) The unions themselves are recognizing that the old system is broken and they need to retool and try new strategies and new things, and that’s what the fast food strikes represent,” says Professor Ruth Milkman of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (Cuny), who has co-authored a new report on the progress of the labor movement in New York and the rest of the US.
(5) When Perry was four, she ran off with the milkman (this is why, he tells me, he has always hated cliches) and married him.
(6) [The public] are not going to shout ‘fucking poof’, they’re more likely to say: ‘Oh, it’s Grayson Perry , mate, like on the TV’.” Born in 1960 to a working class family in Chelmsford, the heart of Essex, Perry’s mother ran off with the milkman when he was four.
(7) If you're now picturing Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West then think again, because these cars move pretty fast and this terrific promotional film by British ad agency Dare certainly makes sure we know it.
(8) The authors present the survey of the history, diagnostics and treatment of osteomalacia with special treatment to Looser zone and Milkman syndrome.
(9) We still practise our best writing in greeting cards, and if anyone still has a milkman I presume communication remains by scribbled note (or do you text the milky now?
(10) The authors present the case study of Milkman-Looser syndrome in a 83 years old female patient.
(11) The main symptoms of osteomalacia are: bone pain; muscular weakness (commonly as pelvic girdle myopathy); Looser-Milkman pseudofractures or more often a pattern of generalized demineralization at X-ray.
(12) Similarly, the McCarthy brothers, who invested over £30m in V2, Branson's second music company, lost all their money and, unable even to pay the milkman, faced personal bankruptcy.
(13) The franchisers themselves are tightly squeezed with costs,” says Milkman.
(14) Those who have benefited so far include: Esther McVey (a woman, obviously, and an MP from the Wirral, who has moved up at DWP from disabilities minister to employment minister); Sajid Javid (the Lancashire-born son of a bus driver, who has moved up at the Treasury from economic secretary to financial secretary); Nicky Morgan (the MP for Loughborough in the Midlands who is moving from the whips office to the Treasury); Mike Penning (the former fireman who has become a minister of state at the DWP, having held the same rank at the more obscure Northern Ireland Office); and Greg Clark (the Middlesbrough-born son of a milkman, who moves sides from the Treasury to the Cabinet Office but who will now attend cabinet).
(15) Nonetheless, it frequently surpasses or supplements radiographic findings in evaluating the focal complications of metabolic bone disease, including fractures, microfractures, stress fractures, vertebral compressions, Milkman-Looser zones, aseptic necrosis, and acute infarction.
(16) In every case Worboys, a one-time milkman, backed up his story with a fat wad of cash, on one occasion fanning it out like a quiz show contestant, and his tall tale – which he called his "banter" – about winning a fortune in the lottery, or at a roulette table.
(17) Late that night I put a note out for the milkman asking him to leave bread, butter and eggs, and in the morning our breakfast was waiting on the doorstep.
(18) Today’s strikes are different from previous ones in a number of ways, demonstrating the willingness to innovate, said Milkman.
(19) Pryce understood immediately how lucky she was to have been able to make provision for her family before she received her sentence, leaving cheques, she writes, "for the pest control man, the milkman and generally for ensuring that the house and my children who lived there would survive my absence, at least financially".
(20) And the numbers are still small – around 24% in both New York state and New York City – but the turnaround of the “relentless decline” is significant, suggested Milkman.