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US
/ˈvihɪkəɫ, ˈviɪkəɫ/
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[ UK /vˈiəkəl/ ]
[ UK /vˈiəkəl/ ]
NOUN
- a conveyance that transports people or objects
- any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it
- 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
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a medium for the expression or achievement of something
a congregation is a vehicle of group identity
the play was just a vehicle to display her talents
his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views
How To Use vehicle In A Sentence
- A energy absorbing structure is disclosed for the purpose of protecting human occupants of a vehicle from the damaging effects of sudden accelerative or decelerative forces by means of plastic deformation of the structure.
- Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
- One Mercedes engineer estimated that, worldwide, up to 50,000 vehicles may have to be repaired, which is a blow for a company which prides itself on reliability and quality. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- The time it takes to start or stop a stopwatch is the same amount of time it would take for someone driving under the influence to lose control of their vehicle, about seven tenths of a second. News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
- Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform. Somewhere East of Life
- The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
- A fellow council worker, who had just got out of the vehicle and was standing close at the time of the impact, suffered serious injuries.
- The drop-in module, which adds to the stiffness and torsional rigidity of the whole vehicle, ties the car together from the seats rearward and from b-pillar to b-pillar.
- The first rutted section of the road jolted the vehicle airborne, slamming my head against the roof.
- Staff vehicles enter at the rear of the building by means of a ramp that leads down to a subterranean car park.