Vehicle
noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.
"But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts."
- 2 a conveyance that transports people or objects wordnet
- 3 A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.
"kinetic kill vehicle"
- 4 a medium for the expression or achievement of something wordnet
- 5 A medium for expression of talent or views.
"supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle"
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- 6 any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another wordnet
- 7 A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
- 8 any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it wordnet
- 9 The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
"an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle"
- 10 An entity to achieve an end.
"mission service as a vehicle for development of better-rounded worldviews"
- 11 A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
- 12 An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits. Hinduism
- 1 To transport in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle.
- 2 To travel in a vehicle.
Example
More examples"The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head-on into the rear-end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson."
Etymology
Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).
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