vehicle

noun

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

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

   “kinetic kill vehicle”

   “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.”

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. The 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. A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
8. (Hinduism)An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.

verb

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