The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail):
— His reluctant delivery of bad news.

synonym: bringing.

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^†; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together etc. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement etc. (completion) 729.    flowering, fructification; inflorescence.    bringing forth etc. v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^†; gestation etc. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen etc. 357.    spontaneous generation; archegenesis^†, archebiosis^†; biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^†; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.    biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^†; tocogony^†, vacuolization.    edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.    ... show more

Roget 580: voice; vocality^†; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice etc. (loud) 404; musical voice etc. 413; intonation; tone of voice etc. (sound) 402.    vocalization; cry etc. 411; strain, utterance, prolation^†; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis^†; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.    accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.    [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.    orthoepy^†; cacoepy^†; euphony etc. (melody) 413.    gastriloquism^†, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism^†, polyphonist^†.    [Science of voice] phonology etc. (sound) 402.    ... show more

Roget 784: giving etc. v.; bestowal, bestowment^†, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award.    almsgiving^†, charity, liberality, generosity.    [Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau^†; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [U.S.].    grace, act of grace, bonus.    allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.    bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation^†, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance etc. 783; amortization.    alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule^†, donative^†, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula^†, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail^†, douceur [Fr.], drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld [G.], bakshish^†; fee etc. (recompense) 973; consideration.    bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle [Slang], graft, grease [Slang]; blat [Rus.].    giver, grantor etc. v.; donor, feoffer^†, settlor.    ... show more

Dutch: aanvoer, afgifte, aflevering, bestelling, bezorging, leverantie, levering, toevoer
Polish: przywóz, dowóz, dostawa, przywózka

The event of giving birth.

Dutch: verlossing, levering, geboorte, bevalling

Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.

synonyms: manner of speaking, speech.

Roget 582: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation^†, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.    oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy etc. 589; allocution etc. 586; conversation etc. 588; salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].    oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence^†; burst of eloquence; facundity^†; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum [Lat.]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.].    speaker etc. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix^†, oratress^†; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer^†, improvisatore^†.    ... show more

Dutch: spreektrant

The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.

synonyms: legal transfer, livery.

baseball The act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter.

synonym: pitch.

Dutch: pitch

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.

synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving.

Dutch: bevrijding, verlossing, behoud, behoudenis, heil, redding
Polish: ratunek

The act of delivering a child.

synonym: obstetrical delivery.

Dutch: baring, bevalling, verlossing