| 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 |
atomic pile
atomic reactor
pile
chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
delivery truck
delivery van
panel truck | a van suitable for delivering goods or services to customers |
lake dwelling
pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
| pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling
stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
| pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
sheet pile
sheath pile
sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
voltaic pile
pile galvanic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series, the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
down
pile | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) |
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 |
pile
heap
mound
agglomerate
cumulation
cumulus | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
compost heap
compost pile | a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost |
general delivery
poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
garbage heap
junk heap
rubbish heap
scrapheap
trash heap
junk pile
trash pile
refuse heap | an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter |
| 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 |
pile
bundle
big bucks
megabucks
big money | a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit), she made a bundle selling real estate, they sank megabucks into their new house |
b batch
deal
flock
good deal
great deal
hatful heap
lot
mass
mess
mickle
mint
mountain
muckle
passel
peck
pile
plenty
pot quite a little
raft
sight
slew
spate
stack
tidy sum
wad v b a | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a batch of letters, a deal of trouble, a lot of money, he made a mint on the stock market, see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos, it must have cost plenty, a slew of journalists, a wad of money |
f tons
dozens
heaps
lots
piles
scores
stacks
loads
rafts
slews
wads
oodles
gobs
scads
lashings | a large number or amount, made lots of new friends, she amassed stacks of newspapers |
hemorrhoid
haemorrhoid
piles | pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter |
accumulate
cumulate
conglomerate
pile up
gather
amass | collect or gather, Journals are accumulating in my office, The work keeps piling up |
| pile | place or lay as if in a pile, The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested |
stack
pile
heap | arrange in stacks, heap firewood around the fireplace, stack your books up on the shelves |
pile up
heap up
stack up | arrange into piles or stacks, She piled up her books in my living room |
throng
mob
pack
pile
jam | press tightly together or cram, The crowd packed the auditorium |
roll up collect
accumulate
pile up
amass
compile
hoard | get or gather together, I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife, She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis, She rolled up a small fortune |
C.O.D.
COD
cash on delivery | collecting the charges upon delivery, mail a package C.O.D. |