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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   vehicle

   • IPA[ˈvēək(ə)l]

   美式

   • n.
     a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart；a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something

   • noun: vehicle, plural noun: vehicles

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart the vehicle was sent skidding across the road a heavy goods vehicle 同義詞 automobile, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, means of transport, conveyance, ... 更多machine, informalwheels, heap, crate, jalopy, auto, hooptie
   • 2. a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas 同義詞 channel, medium, means, means of expression, agency, ... 更多agent, instrument, mechanism, organ, apparatus, structure, machine, machinery, force, catalyst, route, avenue, course, technique, method, approach
   • ▪ a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it casein was used as a vehicle for pigments by the medieval painters
   • ▪ the figurative language used in a metaphor, as distinct from the metaphor's subject.
   • 3. a movie, television program, song, etc., that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage a vehicle for a star who was one of Hollywood's hottest properties