| 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 |
| date rape | rape in which the rapist is known to the victim (as when they are on a date together) |
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 |
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 |
| date bar | fruit bar containing chopped dates |
| date bread | bread containing chopped dates |
| date-nut bread | bread containing chopped dates and nuts |
| date | sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed |
jujube Chinese date
Chinese jujube | dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees |
general delivery
poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
date
appointment
engagement | a meeting arranged in advance, she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date |
| blind date | a date with a stranger, she never goes on blind dates |
| double date | a date in which two couples participate |
dateline
date line
International Date Line | an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the th meridian |
| 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 |
| blind date | a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them) |
date
escort | a participant in a date, his date never stopped talking |
deliveryman
delivery boy
deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
date palm
Phoenix dactylifera | tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit |
date plum
Diospyros lotus | an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes |
| date | the present, they are up to date, we haven't heard from them to date |
maturity maturity date
due date | the date on which an obligation must be repaid |
date
day of the month | the specified day of the month, what is the date today? |
| date | a particular day specified as the time something happens, the date of the election is set by law |
| future date | a particular day in the future that is specified as the time something will happen |
| rain date | an alternative date set for some outdoor event in case it rains on the appointed date, the rain date for the picnic will be the following Sunday |
| sell-by date | a date stamped on perishable produce indicating the date by which it should be sold |
| date | the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred, he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class |
| date particular date | a particular but unspecified point in time, they hoped to get together at an early date |
| epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
| date | assign a date to, determine the (probable) date of, Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings |
| date | provide with a dateline, mark with a date, She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated |
dateline
datemark
date-mark | mark with a date and place, dateline a newspaper article |
| date date stamp | stamp with a date, The package is dated November |
| date | go on a date with, Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart |