vehicle
Other forms: vehicles
A vehicle gets you or your stuff where it needs to go. Even though the grocery store is only a few block away, you'll probably want to use a vehicle to get there, so you won't have to carry your groceries all the way home.
A vehicle is anything that transports a person or thing, usually a car. But a vehicle can be a truck, a plane, a bus, a blimp or even a shopping cart, anything that transports people or things. Vehicle is also often used in the sense of a medium of expression. For example, if you're an artist, your art is the vehicle for your creative ideas. Some people believe that bread is just a vehicle for mayonnaise.
Definitions of vehicle
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a conveyance that transports people or objectstypes:Dodgem, bumper cara small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodgedcrafta vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer spacemilitary vehiclevehicle used by the armed forcesprojectile, rocketa vehicle, firework, or weapon propelled through the air or space by a controlled blast of gases from an engine that carries its own fuel and oxygenskiboba vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancingsled, sledge, sleigha vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snowroad roller, steamrollervehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavementswheeled vehiclea vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or peoplerovera vehicle for exploring rough terrain, especially a planet or another extraterrestrial bodyaircrafta vehicle that can flybaby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, strollera small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed aroundboneshakerany wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortablecaissona two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunitionhalf tracka motor vehicle propelled by half tracks; frequently used by the militarycart, go-cart, handcart, pushcartwheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheelshorse-drawn vehiclea wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horsesground-effect machine, hovercrafta craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engineslanding craftnaval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipmentlugea racing sled for one or two peoplemissilea rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote controlmotor scooter, scootera wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheelmultistage rocket, step rocketa rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhaustedpersonnel carriera military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipmentpicketa vehicle performing sentinel dutypunga one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runnersrolling stockcollection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrierscooterchild's two-wheeled vehicle operated by footself-propelled vehiclea wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsionskateboarda board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by footballistic capsule, space vehicle, spacecrafta vehicle or device able to travel beyond Earth's atmospherearmored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank, tankan enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treadstechnicala pickup truck with a gun mounted on ittoboggana long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in fronthouse trailer, trailera wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancyweapons carriermilitary vehicle that is a light truck designed to carry mortars or machine guns and their crewswelcome wagona wheeled vehicle carrying information and gifts from local merchants for new residents in an areatype of:
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any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with ittype of:substancea particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
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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”type of:mediuma means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
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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 anothersynonyms: fomite
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