vehicle

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 19.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.
2. noun A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.

   kinetic kill vehicle

3. noun A medium for expression of talent or views.

   supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle

4. noun A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
5. noun The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

   an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle

6. noun An entity to achieve an end.

   mission service as a vehicle for development of better-rounded worldviews

7. noun A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
8. noun An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

Similar words

vehicular motoring driving driver humvee automobile jeep motorcar bus car

Often followed by

for of and to is in was or that

Word family

vehicles