vehicle
pronunciation
How to pronounce vehicle in British English:
UK [ˈviːəkl]
How to pronounce vehicle in American English:
US [ˈviːəkl , ˈviːhɪkl]
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- Noun:
- a conveyance that transports people or objects
- a medium for the expression or achievement of something
- 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
Word Origin
- vehicle
- vehicle: [17] A vehicle is etymologically something that ‘carries’. The word comes via French véhicule from Latin vehiculum, a derivative of vehere ‘carry’. This also gave English convex, inveigh, vector [18] (etymologically a ‘carrier’), and vex [15], and it came ultimately from a prehistoric Indo- European base *wegh-, ancestor also of English waggon, way, weigh, etc.=> convex, inveigh, vector, vex, waggon, way, weigh
- vehicle (n.)
- 1610s, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," also "any means of conveying or transmitting," from French véhicule (16c.), from Latin vehiculum "means of transport, vehicle, carriage, conveyance," from vehere "to bear, carry, convey," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cognates: Old English wegan "to carry;" Old Norse vegr, Old High German weg "way;" Middle Dutch wagen "wagon;" see wagon). Sense of "cart or other conveyance" in English first recorded 1650s.
Synonym
Example
- 1. His vehicle brushed against a 12-year-old roma girl .
- 2. Who is using their bodies as a vehicle ?
- 3. Mr. agarwal is among several involved in the investment vehicle .
- 4. The opposite of vehicle trouble is driving skillfully .
- 5. In-car health monitoring might be coming to a vehicle near you .