vehicle

Definitions

General English

  • noun a machine which carries passengers or goods, e.g. a car, lorry or bus

General Science

  • noun a machine for moving people or goods, e.g. a car, truck, train or boat

Cars & Driving

  • noun any form of transportation but especially one with wheels.

Construction

  • In painting, a substance, such as oil, in which pigments are mixed for application.
  • Any device for conveyance.

Marketing

  • noun a machine with wheels, used to carry goods or passengers on a road

Medical

  • noun a liquid in which a dose of a drug is put

Military

  • noun a machine which moves on land

Publishing

  • noun the liquid part of printing ink, which carries the pigment

Origin & History of “vehicle”

A vehicle is etymologically something that ‘carries’. The word comes via French véhicule from Latin vehiculum, a derivative of vehere ‘carry’. this also gave English convex, inveigh, vector (18th c.) (etymologically a ‘carrier’), and vex (15th c.), and it came ultimately from a prehistoric Indo-European base *wegh-, ancestor also of English waggon, way, weigh, etc.
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