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Installment vs Delivery - What's the difference?

installment | delivery |

As nouns the difference between installment and delivery

is that installment is the act of installing; installation or installment can be a portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, eg mensual) being often definitely stipulated while delivery is the act of conveying something.

installment

English

Alternative forms

* instalment (Commonwealth)

Etymology 1

From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of installing; installation.
    • Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
  • (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
    • The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.
    Synonyms
    * investiture, investment * installation

    Etymology 2

    A 1732 alteration of (estallment), from (etyl) : The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
  • a part of a broadcast or published serial.
  • anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
    • Usage notes
    For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment . Commonwealth usage varies.
    Synonyms
    * (portion of a debt) * (part of a broadcast or published serial) episode, part

    References

    * * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=installment+&searchmode=none]

    delivery

    English

    Noun

    (deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
    • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
    • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
    • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
    • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
    • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
    • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
    • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.

    • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery