any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed; a means of conveyance or transport: a motor vehicle; space vehicles.
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a conveyance moving on wheels, runners, tracks, or the like, as a cart, sled, automobile, or tractor.
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a means of transmission or passage: Air is the vehicle of sound.
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a carrier, as of infection.
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a medium of communication, expression, or display: The novel is a fitting vehicle for his talents. Language is the vehicle of thought.
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Theater,Movies. a play, screenplay, or the like, having a role suited to the talents of and often written for a specific performer.
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a means of accomplishing a purpose: College is a vehicle for success.
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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).
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Pharmacology. a substance, usually fluid, possessing little or no medicinal action, used as a medium for active remedies.
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Painting. a liquid, as oil, in which a pigment is mixed before being applied to a surface.
[Origin: 1605–15; < L vehiculum, equiv. to veh(ere) to convey + -i--i-+ -culum-cle2]
—Pronunciation note Because the primary stress in vehicle is on the first syllable, the Audio Help/h/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[h]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciationin the second syllable tends to disappear: Audio Help/ˈviɪkəl/[vee-i-kuhl]. A pronunciation with primary stress on the second syllable and a fully pronounced /h/[h]is usually considered nonstandard: /viˈhɪkəl/[vee-hik-uhl]. In the adjective vehicular, where the primary stress is normally on the second syllable, the /h/[h]is always pronounced.
A device or structure for transporting persons or things; a conveyance: a space vehicle.
A self-propelled conveyance that runs on tires; a motor vehicle.
A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished: His novels are a vehicle for his political views.
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).
A play, role, or piece of music used to display the special talents of one performer or company.
A substance of no therapeutic value used to convey an active medicine for administration.
A substance, such as oil, in which paint pigments are mixed for application.
[Latin vehiculum, from vehere, to carry; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]
1612, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," 1615 in the sense of "any means of conveying or transmitting," from Fr. véhicule, from L. vehiculum "means of transport, a vehicle," from vehere "to carry," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cf. O.E. wegan "to carry;" O.N. vegr, O.H.G. weg "way;" M.Du. wagen "wagon;" see wagon). Sense of "cart or other conveyance" first recorded 1656.
a medium for the expression or achievement of something; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents"
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any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it
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any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another [syn: fomite]
Main Entry: ve·hi·cle Pronunciation: 'vE-"(h)ik-&l, 'vE-&-k&l Function: noun 1: an inert medium in which a medicinally
active agent is administered 2: an agent of transmission <a vehicle of infection>
Con"vex\, a. [L. convexus vaulted, arched, convex, concave, fr. convehere to bring together: cf. F. convexe. See Vehicle.] Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. --Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.
In*veigh"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inveighed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inveighing.] [L. invehere, invectum, to carry or bring into or against, to attack with words, to inveigh; pref. in- in + vehere to carry. See Vehicle, and cf. Invective.] To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposed him. --Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. --Hawthorne.
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