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# deliver

«deliver» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take letters, parcels or goods to a place or person:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (deliver, delivers, delivered, delivering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To deliver means to take letters, parcels or goods to a place or person: the postman delivers the post. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#m1)

2) To deliver a speech or talk means to give it to an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#m2)

3) To deliver a baby means to help it be born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#m3)

4) To deliver means to do what you promised: they delivered on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#m4)

5) To deliver from danger (old use) means to rescue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: post, parcels, pizza and food deliveries; safety — do not open the door to delivery people when home alone, let an adult deal with them. In maths, delivery problems: a van delivers 24 boxes to each of 5 shops — how many in all? (multiply). At school, pupils deliver presentations to the class. Phrases: deliver a parcel, deliver a speech, home delivery, deliver on a promise.

### examples

- The postman delivers our letters every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x1)
- The shop will deliver the new sofa on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x2)
- A driver delivers 36 parcels in a morning and 28 in the afternoon. How many is that in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x3)
- Maya delivered her talk about volcanoes to the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x4)
- The midwife delivered the baby safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x5)
- Don't open the door to a delivery person if you are on your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x6)
- The team delivered the project on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x7)
- "What should I deliver?" said Tom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: delivered, delivering. Noun: delivery (plural deliveries); «deliverer» is rare — say «delivery driver». Maths: «each», «per» or «every» in delivery problems usually means multiplication or division.

### In the corpora

- [You learn your postcode or ZIP code, because it helps letters to be delivered quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/5/)
- [Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/16/)
- [And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.720/)
- [And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1199/)
- [So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1099/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deliver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.