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delivery

delivery

37 4.1
The way someone says words to others, for example in a speech
  • noun
  • /dɪˈlɪvəri/
translation icon : estilo de presentación
  • Her confident delivery of the speech impressed everyone in the room.
  • delivery style
  • a teacher's delivery
  • lesson delivery

I mean, I don't think the delivery was was great.

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Examples

  • You need to work on your delivery, all right?

  • He said he liked your material, loved your delivery, but wants you to polish it up ever so slightly.

  • I read it with feeling and delivery so that everyone can easily follow it.

  • That was a great delivery, right?

  • I do think a lot of it is in the delivery of the joke.

  • It's not the script, it's the delivery of the script.

  • We have conscious artists, but the delivery is everything.

  • The essence is the same, but the delivery is the difference.

    Academic text (2008)
  • But when we come at people with the right delivery, with the right energy, we disarm them.

  • In fact, everyone's delivery was something we worked on a lot during rehearsals.

Synonyms

expression
vsdelivery
230 3.4

The way someone shows thoughts and feelings in speech and writing

limits this to live said aloud performance and public presentation
speech
vsdelivery
117 1.0

The way a person uses words and voice when talking

emphasizes public performance and theatrical presentation
oratory
vsdelivery
  • Formal
10 7.3

The skill of speaking in public in a formal, powerful way to move people

is broader and covers general said aloud style beyond grand formality
manner of speaking
vsdelivery
7 3.8

A person's usual way of talking that shows how they feel or think

focuses more on public performance and staged presentation
address
vsdelivery
  • Archaic
3 6.9

A skillful way of speaking or behaving in social situations

emphasizes expressive performance over mere composure

Antonyms

660 2.0

A period with no sound or speech

Compounds

delivery boy
  • Informal
26 2.2

A young man who delivers food and packages to homes by bicycle or motorbike

16 2.5

A vehicle like a van that carries packages to customers

A service that delivers mail faster than usual for an extra fee

care delivery
  • Specialized
5 3.4

The way people get health services from places like a hospital or clinic

health care delivery
  • Specialized
4 3.1

The way health services are organized and given to people

3 1.8

A van that carries goods to customers

Paying in cash when someone brings goods to your home

Giving birth without danger or health problems for mother and baby

1 4.1

A post office service that holds mail for people to collect in person

healthcare delivery
  • Specialized
1 3.9

The way health services are set up and given to people

cesarean delivery
  • Specialized
1 3.6

A birth by an operation where doctors cut the belly and womb

forceps delivery
  • Specialized
1 5.1

A medical way to help a baby out of the birth canal using metal tools to hold its head

breech delivery
  • Specialized
1 7.1

A birth when the baby comes feet or bottom first instead of head first

A birth by an operation that cuts the mother's lower belly and womb to take out the baby

abdominal delivery
  • Specialized
3.6

A baby born by an operation through the mother's belly and womb

frank breech delivery
  • Specialized
5.8

A birth when the baby is lying so its bottom comes out first

7.7

A small fat bubble that carries pieces of DNA into cells

A person who brings milk to homes or shops

gene delivery vector
  • Specialized
7.9

A tool used to carry genes into cells for research or treatment

9.9

People use force to free prisoners from jail

obstetrical delivery
  • Specialized
3.9

Helping a woman to give birth, often by doctors or nurses

3.7

Free mail delivery to people who live in the countryside

viral delivery vector
  • Specialized
6.0

A virus that carries new genes into cells for treatment or research

How Expressive

delivery
37 4.1
monotone
8 5.3
mumbling
6 3.6

Surface Forms

delivery singular
deliveries plural

Morphology

delivery = deliver (transparent) = deliver + y

A regular nominalization meaning 'the manner of delivering (a speech or performance)'; learners who know 'deliver (a speech)' can infer this sense.

Etymology

Delivery comes from old words meaning 'hand over' or 'give', based on the root liber (as in liberty). So when we talk about someone's speech delivery, we mean the way they 'give' or 'present' their words to an audience.