Meaning of vehicle | Babel Free

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1. A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals
2. A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.
3. any means of transport on land, especially on wheels, eg a car, bus, bicycle etc. voertuig مَرْكَبَه، عَرَبَه превозно средство veículo vozidlo das Fahrzeug køretøj όχημα, τροχοφόροvehículo liiklusvahend وسیله نقلیه ajoneuvo véhicule כְּלִי רֶכֶב सवारी vozilo jármű kendaraan farartæki veicolo 乗り物 수단, 운반구, 차, 탈것 (sausumos) transporto priemonė transporta līdzeklis kenderaan voertuigkjøretøy, transportmiddelpojazd ګاډۍ، دوړلو را وړلو وسيله: وسيله، ذريعه veívulo vehicul транспортное средство vozi...
   especially
4. A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon
5. A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.
6. A device or structure for transporting persons or things; a conveyance: a space vehicle.
7. A medium for expression of talent or views
8. A medium for expression of talent or views.
9. A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
10. A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished: His novels are a vehicle for his political views.
11. A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint
12. The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
13. The concrete or specific word or phrase that is applied to the tenor of a metaphor and gives the metaphor its figurative power, as walking shadow in "Life's but a walking shadow" (Shakespeare).
    walking shadow
14. The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug
15. An entity to achieve an end.
16. A play, role, or piece of music used to display the special talents of one performer or company.
17. A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
18. An inactive substance that is combined with an active medication to facilitate administration.
19. An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.
    Hinduism
20. A substance, such as oil, in which paint pigments are mixed for application.
21. (Automotive Engineering) any conveyance in or by which people or objects are transported, esp one fitted with wheels
22. a medium for the expression, communication, or achievement of ideas, information, power, etc
23. (Pharmacology) pharmacol a therapeutically inactive substance mixed with the active ingredient to give bulk to a medicine
    pharmacol

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Examples

“But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.”

“Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”

“Both vehicle types will feed that data into artificial intelligence systems that, having been trained through so-called machine learning, will identify, characterize and evaluate external phenomena.”

“kinetic kill vehicle”

“In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.”

“supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle”

“an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle”

“mission service as a vehicle for development of better-rounded worldviews”

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