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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pronunciation \Pro*nun'ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), noun [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See {Pronounce}.]
1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
2. The mode of uttering words or sentences.
3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called {delivery}. --J. Q. Adams.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Delivery \De*liv"er*y\, noun; pl. {Deliveries}.
1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Neater limbs and freer delivery. --Sir H. Wotton.
6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
delivery
noun
1: the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: {bringing}]
2: the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"
3: 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" [syn: {manner of speaking}, {speech}]
4: the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another [syn: {livery}, {legal transfer}]
5: (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter [syn: {pitch}]
6: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: {rescue}, {deliverance}, {saving}]
7: the act of delivering a child [syn: {obstetrical delivery}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
176 Moby Thesaurus words for "delivery": Emancipation Proclamation, abalienation, accommodation, accordance, accouchement, affranchisement, alienation, amortization, amortizement, articulation, assignation, assignment, attack, award, awarding, bargain and sale, barter, bearing, bequeathal, bestowal, bestowment, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, break, breakout, cession, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, communication, concession, conduction, conferment, conferral, confinement, consignation, consignment, contagion, contribution, convection, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, demise, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, disenthrallment, disposal, disposition, dissemination, distribution, donation, emancipation, emergence, endowment, enfeoffment, enfranchisement, enunciation, escape, escapism, evasion, exchange, execution, export, exportation, expression, expulsion, extradition, extrication, flight, freeing, furnishment, gay liberation, genesis, getaway, gifting, giving, giving birth, grant, granting, hatching, having a baby, impartation, impartment, import, importation, interchange, investiture, issuance, issue, jailbreak, labor, leak, leakage, lease and release, liberality, liberation, lifesaving, manumission, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, multiparity, mutual transfer, nascency, nativity, offer, osmosis, outlet, parturition, passage, passing over, performance, perfusion, phonation, presentation, presentment, prisonbreak, pronunciation, provision, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, rescue, retrieval, riddance, sale, salvage, salvation, saving, setting at liberty, setting-free, settlement, settling, spread, spreading, subscription, supplying, surrender, the Nativity, the stork, trading, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transport, transportation, transposal, transposition, travail, travel, utterance, vent, vesting, vocalization, voicing, vouchsafement
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