different between deliver vs transit

English

Alternative forms

• delivre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin d? + l?ber? (“to set free”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: de?liv?er

Verb

deliver (third-person singular simple present delivers, present participle delivering, simple past and past participle delivered)

1. To set free from restraint or danger.

   Synonyms: free, liberate, release

2. (process) To do with birth.
   1. To assist in the birth of.

   2. (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

      • Sche was delivered sauf and sone

   3. To give birth to.

3. To free from or disburden of anything.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman

     Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

4. To bring or transport something to its destination.
5. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
6. (intransitive, informal) To produce what was expected or required.
   • 2004, Detroit News, Detroit Pistons: Champions at Work (page 86)

     "You know, he plays great sometimes when he doesn't score," Brown said. "Tonight, with Rip (Richard Hamilton) struggling, we needed somebody to step up, and he really did. He really delivered."
7. To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

8. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

   • shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
9. To discover; to show.
10. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

11. (medicine) To administer a drug.

Synonyms

• (to set free): free, loose, rid, outbring
• (to express): utter, outbring
• (produce what was required): come through, come up with the goods

Derived terms

• delivery
• deliverable
• deliver the goods

Translations

Anagrams

• delivre, livered, relived, reviled

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) +? ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /?t???n.z?t/
• Rhymes: -ænz?t

Noun

transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

   the transit of goods through a country

3. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
5. (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
6. (Britain) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

   Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.

7. (Canada, US) Public transport system.

   I always take the transit to work.

Derived terms

• transit lounge

Translations

Verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

1. To pass over, across or through something.
2. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
3. (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
4. (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Translations

Related terms

• transience
• transiency
• transient
• transition
• transitional
• transitionary
• transitionist
• transitive
• transitively
• transitory

References

Further reading

• transit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• transit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Tristan, startin', straint

French

Verb

transit

1. third-person singular present indicative of transir
2. third-person singular past historic of transir

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin tr?nse?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?trans?t]
• Hyphenation: tran?sit

Noun

transit (first-person possessive transitku, second-person possessive transitmu, third-person possessive transitnya)

1. transit,
   1. (trading) the conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
   2. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Alternative forms

• transito

Further reading

• “transit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

transit m (plural transic)

1. transit

Latin

Verb

tr?nsit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of tr?nse?