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`ve-hi-cle
`[vee-i-kuh l or, sometimes, vee-hi-]
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`noun
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`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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`7.
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`a means of accomplishing a purpose:
`College is a vehicle for success.
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`Origin of vehicle
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`Latin (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/latin)
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`1605-1615
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`1605-15; < Latin vehiculum, equivalent to veh (ere) to convey + -i- -i- (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-i-) + -culum -cle
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`Pronunciation note
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`[vee-i-kuh l] . A
`[h] (Show IPA) in the second syllable tends to disappear:
`Because the primary stress in vehicleis on the first syllable, the
`pronunciation with primary stress on the second syllable and a fully pronounced [h] is usually considered nonstandard: [vee-hik-uh l] . In the adjective
`vehicular,where the primary stress is normally on the second syllable, the [h] is always pronounced.
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`Examples from the Web for ve-hi-cle
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`Contemporary Examples
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`But Roth invests little interest in this man except as a foil for Bucky and a vehicle for his story.
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`Philip Roth's Extreme Novel (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/02/philip-roths-nemesisreview.html?source=dictionary)
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`Morris Dickstein (http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/morris-dickstein.html?source=dictionary)
`October 1, 2010
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`She says when she was dragged into a vehicle she told soldiers: "Take your hands off me."
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`Egypt's Military Uses Force (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/02/26/egypts-military-uses-force-honeymoons-over.html?source=dictionary)
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`Ursula Lindsey (http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/ursula-lindsey.html?source=dictionary)
`February 25, 2011
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`“I could see that the vehicle was occupied by two persons in the front seat,” he would later write.
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`The Teen Love Letters that Led to a Tragic Murder-Suicide in Florida (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/30/the-love-letters-that-led-to-a-tragic-murder-suicide-in-
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`Michael Daly (http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/michael-daly.html?source=dictionary)
`March 29, 2014
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`British Dictionary definitions for ve-hi-cle
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`vehicle
`/ˈviːɪkəl/
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`noun
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`any conveyance in or by which people or objects are transported, esp one fitted with wheels
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`2.
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`a medium for the expression, communication, or achievement of ideas, information, power, etc
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`3.
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`(pharmacol) a therapeutically inactive substance mixed with the active ingredient to give bulk to a medicine
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`Word Origin and History for ve-hi-cle
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`n.
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`1610s, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," also "any means of conveying or transmitting," from French véhicule, from Latin
`vehiculum "means of transport, a vehicle," from vehere "to carry," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cf. Old English wegan "to carry;"
`Old Norse vegr, Old High German weg "way;" Middle Dutch wagen "wagon;" see wagon (/browse/wagon) ). Sense of "cart or other conveyance" first
`recorded 1650s.
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`ve-hi-cle in Medicine
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`vehicle ve·hi·cle (vē'ĭ-kəl)
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`A substance of no therapeutic value that is used to convey an active medicine for administration.
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`Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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