vehicle

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UK /ˈviː.ɪ.kəl/ US /ˈvi.ə.kəl/

noun 5verb 2

Collocations

(noun.) used for transporting people or things

ADJ

moving, oncoming, passing

The moving vehicle knocked over several mailboxes before coming to a stop.

parked, stationary

I had to wait while a parked vehicle blocked the narrow street.

unattended

stolen

Police recovered the stolen vehicle from a garage on the edge of town yesterday.

horse-drawn, motor | electric, diesel, petrol/petrol-driven

wheeled

The delivery company uses different wheeled vehicles to transport packages across the city.

QUANT

convoy

A long convoy of vehicles blocked the highway after the accident this morning.

VERB + VEHICLE

own

hire

We decided to hire a vehicle for our road trip across the country.

drive | park

impound, tow away

The council will tow away any car parked illegally in this area.

abandon

The driver abandoned the vehicle on the highway and called for a taxi to take her home.

VEHICLE + VERB

arrive

The delivery vehicle arrived early this morning with our new furniture.

break down

collide, crash (into sth)

A car crashed into the bus stop, but fortunately no one was waiting there.

run on sth

Many electric vehicles now run on rechargeable batteries instead of gasoline.

VEHICLE + NOUN

emission

The new law requires all car manufacturers to reduce vehicle emissions by 2030.

manufacture

(noun.) sth used for communicating ideas/achieving sth

ADJ

excellent, ideal, perfect | important, main, major

PREP

~ for

The new reality show became an excellent vehicle for promoting young musicians to a wider audience.

~ of

Social media has become an important vehicle of expression for young people worldwide.

Definitions

noun

A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

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.

A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.

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.

A medium for expression of talent or views.

supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle

A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.

The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle

verb

To transport in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle.

To travel in a vehicle.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dis

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

star vehicle

A movie, play, TV series, or other production that enhances an actor's career.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head-on into the rear-end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson.

Tatoeba · #28130

Rigid wheels give sufficient stability to a low-speed vehicle steered by outside forces.

Tatoeba · #33768

The police pursued the stolen vehicle along the motorway.

Tatoeba · #238322

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