vehicle

plural vehicles

1. A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

   Both vehicle types will feed that data into artificial intelligence systems that, having been trained through so-called machine learning, will identify, characterize and evaluate external phenomena.

   2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025

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   But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

   2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

   Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

   2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2021, page 28

2. A guided or aimed mobile object or apparatus, especially if intended or used as a weapon.

   kinetic kill vehicle

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   In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

   2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2025, page 6

3. A medium for expression of talent or views.

   supporting actors in a Steven Spielberg vehicle

4. A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
5. medicineThe main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

   an ointment with a petrolatum vehicle

6. An entity to achieve an end.

   mission service as a vehicle for development of better-rounded worldviews

7. BuddhismA mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
8. HinduismAn animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

present singular third person vehicles · participle present vehicling · participle past vehicled · past vehicled

1. To transport in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle.
2. To travel in a vehicle.