What does delivery mean?
Word: Delivery
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Delivery means the act of taking goods, letters or parcels to the person who should get them. In cricket, it is a single ball bowled.
Synonyms: drop-off
How do you spell delivery?
Syllables: de - liv - er - y
Tricky part: Students who spell by sound swallow the middle and write delivry or dilivery. Every letter of deliver stays.
Watch out for: delevery, dilivery, delivry
Memory tip: Think of discover and recover: each keeps every letter when it turns into a noun, and deliver does too.
Delivery in a sentence
Example 1: The pizza delivery took only twenty minutes.
Example 2: Is there free delivery on this order?
Example 3: The bowler's last delivery knocked down the middle stump.
Fun Fact
Deliver comes from the Old French delivrer, to set free. Long before parcels arrived at doors, to deliver someone meant to set them free.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) parcle
b) delivery
c) adress
d) corier
Show answer
b) delivery. Parcel, address and courier are each misspelt here; delivery is spelt correctly.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
deliver
a) ey
b) ee
c) ie
d) y
Show answer
d) y. Deliver keeps every letter and takes a y, which turns the verb into a noun.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
delivery
a) dispatch
b) repair
c) purchase
d) refund
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a) dispatch. Dispatch is the sending of goods to someone, the closest in meaning to delivery.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
lderieyv
a) silvery
b) lively
c) deliver
d) delivery
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d) delivery. Eight letters with a d and a y: deliver has no y, silvery needs an s, and lively a second l.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who would you expect to make a delivery?
a) a teacher marking books
b) a pilot flying a plane
c) a courier with a parcel
d) a doctor checking a patient
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c) a courier with a parcel
2. In cricket, how many deliveries make one over?
a) eight
b) six
c) five
d) ten
Show answer
b) six
