Definitions for vehicle

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vehicle ve·hi·cle

Spelling: [vee-i-kuh l or, sometimes, vee-hi-]

IPA: /ˈvi ɪ kəl or, sometimes, ˈvi hɪ-/

Vehicle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in vehicle (ceehilv).

Definitions for vehicle

noun

1. any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed; a means of conveyance or transport:
2. a conveyance moving on wheels, runners, tracks, or the like, as a cart, sled, automobile, or tractor.
3. a means of transmission or passage:
4. a carrier, as of infection.
5. a medium of communication, expression, or display:
6. Theater, Movies. a play, screenplay, or the like, having a role suited to the talents of and often written for a specific performer.
7. a means of accomplishing a purpose:
8. Rhetoric. the thing or idea to which the subject of a metaphor is compared, as “rose” in “she is a rose.”. Compare tenor (def 3).
9. Pharmacology. a substance, usually fluid, possessing little or no medicinal action, used as a medium for active remedies.
10. Painting. a liquid, as oil, in which a pigment is mixed before being applied to a surface.

Origin of vehicle

1605-15; Latin vehiculum, equivalent to veh(ere) to convey + -i- -i- + -culum -cle²

Examples for vehicle

Eventually Morrow was released with no money, vehicle, or phone.

After a few moments, four officers exited the vehicle, causing the man to turn and walk away quickly.

The buck-board is the only vehicle possible over these mountain-roads.

Once our vehicle entered an elevator and was let down a brief distance.

Meeting an additional objective standard is necessary: can the vehicle safely transport you from one place to another?

They tried to continue their getaway but had to quickly abandon their vehicle on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th.

Vast crowds lined the route, afoot and in every kind of vehicle.

I got out of the vehicle with the infirmary attendant and his assistant.

In the vehicle in which I drove to the station the kind man had put a basket of food.

KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.