delivery obstetrical delivery | the act of delivering a child |
rescue deliverance delivery saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
jail delivery | the use of force to liberate prisoners |
pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
breech delivery breech birth breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
frank breech frank breech delivery | position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet |
d cesarean delivery caesarean delivery caesarian delivery cesarean section cesarian section caesarean section caesarian section C-section cesarean cesarian caesarean caesarian abdominal delivery a b a a | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
forceps delivery | delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal, since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries |
delivery bringing | the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail), his reluctant delivery of bad news |
healthcare delivery health care delivery care delivery | the provision of health care |
delivery livery legal transfer | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
delivery truck delivery van panel truck | a van suitable for delivering goods or services to customers |
early warning radar | a radar that is part of an early warning system |
early warning system | a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy missiles or aircraft while there is still time to intercept them |
rural free delivery RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
special delivery | mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge) |
manner of speaking speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
delivery | the event of giving birth, she had a difficult delivery |
general delivery poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
liposomal delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses liposomes to carry the gene of interest |
transducing vector gene delivery vector | a vector for delivering genes into cells |
viral delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses a retrovirus |
deliveryman delivery boy deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
early bird | a person who gets up very early in the morning |
early bird | a person who arrives early before others do |
Belle Isle cress early winter cress land cress American cress American watercress Barbarea verna Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
male orchis early purple orchid Orchis mascula | Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike |
early coral root pale coral root Corallorhiza trifida | plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips, northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska |
early spider orchid Ophrys sphegodes | spring-blooming spider orchid having a flower with yellow or green or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip |
dwarf-white trillium snow trillium early wakeobin | a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States |
Verpa bohemica early morel | resembles a thimble on a finger, the surface of the fertile portion is folded into wrinkles that extend from the top down, fruiting begins in spring before the leaves are out on the trees |
infancy babyhood early childhood | the early stage of growth or development |
early-morning hour | an hour early in the morning |
youth early days | an early period of development, during the youth of the project |
early | at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time, early morning, an early warning, early diagnosis, an early death, took early retirement, an early spring, early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties |
early | being or occurring at an early stage of development, in an early stage, early forms of life, early man, an early computer |
early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature, the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the th to the th centuries B.C., Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from to |
spring-flowering early-flowering spring-blooming early-blooming late-spring-blooming | of plants that bloom during the spring |
early | very young, at an early age |
early(a) former(a) other(a) | belonging to the distant past, the early inhabitants of Europe, former generations, in other times |
early | expected in the near future, look for an early end to the negotiations |
early ahead of time too soon | before the usual time or the time expected, she graduated early, the house was completed ahead of time |
early betimes | in good time, he awoke betimes that morning |
early on early | during an early stage, early on in her career |
C.O.D. COD cash on delivery | collecting the charges upon delivery, mail a package C.O.D. |