Deliver vs Impart - What's the difference?
deliver | impart |
To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}
To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
To give a (l) or (l).
To (l) the (l) of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To hold a (l) or (l).
To obtain a share of; to partake of.
As verbs the difference between deliver and impart
is that deliver is to set free while impart is to give a part or share.deliver
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Alternative forms
* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}
- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (to set free) * (to express)Derived terms
* delivery * deliverable * deliver the goodsAnagrams
*impart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Well may he then to you his cares impart .
- Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- (Munday)