Word Finder - vehicle

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A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.

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A medium for expression of talent or views.

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A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).

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(pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

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An entity to achieve an end.

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A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.

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An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits

She climbed onto the vehicle and settled on the soft cushion.

She gripped the steering wheel as the vehicle plunged down a steep hill.

I was thinking about buying a new vehicle and wondered if we had the money, so I looked at his financial information on the computer.

There's a chance it might be the vehicle we're looking for.

As if on cue, the sound of a vehicle starting broke the silence.

Dean promised himself to keep driving past the building if the deputy Larkin's car was in evidence, but only the sheriff's vehicle was present.

As he glanced down at his vehicle, he saw both tires on the driver's side were totally flat.

At the door he found a vehicle half full of luggage.

Howie obtained a full description of the man and his vehicle and the license plate number.

He pulled the vehicle to the elbow of a switchback.

It was an hour later before they saw their first vehicle, an old Scout, battered and muddy, coming out of a side trail below them.

There's a barn out back that's closed up so we can't see if the vehicle is here.

He's checking reported vehicle thefts in the area.

After they were settled in the vehicle and on their way back to town, Jennifer Radisson brought up the more mundane subjects of the mine and her litigation.

Dean waved his arms and at first thought the driver didn't see them, but finally the vehicle stopped.

I agreed to search while he'd put out an all-points bulletin on the vehicle Howie was driving.

The description of that vehicle is plastered at every toll booth, state police barracks and wire service from here to California and back.

She should be looking for a replacement vehicle, but having another car in the garage would only be a reminder that there was no one left to drive it.

He carefully worked the ATV down a steep washed out trail that threatened to overturn the vehicle several times.

Howie, now able to usually remain with a vehicle, stayed with the car to a suburban ranch style house only six miles from the kidnapping.

I got all the vehicle information and full descriptions of the people.

The vehicle has a Wall Drug bumper sticker and an emblem from a Kansas campground in the back window.

While it would take time for precise confirmation, we all knew the burned out vehicle contained the bodies of Howie Abbott and John Luke Grasso.

Dean recognized the markings as a rental from town, but it was not the same vehicle either of the Dawkins brothers were driving.

As Dean rounded a curve, he caught sight of the tail end of a white vehicle speeding down the cliff-hanging road on the far side of the deep valley—a sheriff's white Blazer was his first impression.

Only low brush could grow in so small a space... no trees to prevent a vehicle from plunging into the forested mountain ranges below and beyond.

He leaned over the seat and began rummaging through his backseat accumulation as the vehicle began to slide backwards.

She shook her head, eyeing the vehicle apprehensively.

He went straight to the driver's side of his vehicle.

Following a long drive that consisted of little more than two ruts worn by vehicle tires, they came to the Marsh ranch.

He was willing to personally alert the local police and have them check out the vehicle even without clear cut identification.

He insisted on leaving the vehicle at my disposal in case I needed it.

The siren could be heard before the vehicle was seen, so Carmen pulled over.

Finally he stepped back from the vehicle and wiped his hands with a rag.

Seeing an out of state plate isn't unusual, especially on a vehicle designed for travel.

I was a nervous wreck as we pulled up to a large vehicle that operated as some sort of command center.

Firefighters removed a casualty from one vehicle using hydraulic cutting equipment on a spine board.

The fixed blocks are defined by inductive loops set into the track which interact with sensing circuits on the vehicle.

While my new vehicle is far less accommodating to my needs as my precious motor home, now resting in an airport parking lot, this van is satisfying my temporary needs.

Dean crawled on his hands and knees, peering under the vehicle for Billy's young girlfriend but there was no one else, only a liquor bottle—unlike its victim, unbroken.

He looked across the vehicle, smiled, and got in.

If therefore the outer rail is laid at a level above that of the inner rail at the curve, overturning will be resisted more than would be the case if both rails were in the same horizontal plane, since the tilting of the vehicle due to this " superelevation " diminishes the overturning moment, and also increases the restoring moment, by shortening in the one case and lengthening in the other the lever arms at which the respective forces act.

The amount of superelevation required to prevent derailment at a curve can be calculated under perfect running conditions, given the radius of curvature, the weight of the vehicle, the height of the centre of gravity, the distance between the rails, and the speed; but great experience 1 See The Times Engineering Supplement (August 22, 1906), p. 265.

The vehicle also includes a display of common fire hazards within the home.

Illinois in insurance medical booming here vehicle had been.

My previous vehicle was a Jap import, a Toyota Surf, in fact it did belong to a Japanese gentleman from Osaka.

Is there a regular preventive maintenance program for each vehicle, carried out at predetermined intervals of time or mileage?

This new low-cost, easy-to-use vehicle tracking system is now possible for just 98p per day.

The London Rolling Stock Team has experience of all the vehicle types used in London, including mainline, light rail and tube.

The vehicle later developed a major electrical malfunction, and was pulled out of the Tour de Sol.