different between delivery vs gestate

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??l?v(?)?i/
• Rhymes: -?v??i

Noun

delivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)

2. The act of conveying something.

   The delivery was completed by four.

   delivery of a nuclear missile to its target

3. The item which has been conveyed.

   Your delivery is on the table.

4. The act of giving birth

   The delivery was painful.

5. (baseball) A pitching motion.

   His delivery has a catch in it.

6. (baseball) A thrown pitch.

   Here is the delivery; ... strike three!

7. The manner of speaking.

   The actor's delivery was flawless.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55

     I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery.
8. (medicine) The administration of a drug.

   Drug delivery system.

9. (cricket) A ball bowled.
10. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
11. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

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Derived terms

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English delivery.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.?li.ve.?i/

Noun

delivery m (plural deliveries)

1. (Brazil) delivery (the transportation of goods, usually food, directly to the customer’s house)

   Synonym: entrega

Spanish

Etymology

From English delivery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?libe?i/, [d?e?li.??e.?i]

Noun

delivery m (plural deliveries or delivery)

1. delivery

English

Etymology

Back-formation from gestation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

1. (intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
   • 2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press (?ISBN)

     In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.

2. (by extension, intransitive) To develop an idea.

Related terms

• gestation

Translations

Anagrams

• tagetes

Latin

Participle

gest?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gest?tus