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vehicle
Synonyms:

(noun) agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, machinery, means, medium, ministry, organ.

Related Words:

(noun) agent, automobile, bicycle, boat, buggy, bus, cab, car, conveyance, crate, instrument, jalopy, jeep, mechanism, taxi, tool, truck, van, vector, wagon.

tenor (of rhetoric): 

the subject of a metaphor, as “she” in “She is a rose.” 

Origin:

1605–15; <Latin vehiculum, equivalent to veh(ere) to convey + -i--i- + -culum-cle2. Dictionary 2: C17: from Latin vehiculum, from vehere to carry. —Dictionary.com. // 

 First Known Use of vehicle: 1612. History and Etymology for vehicle: borrowed from French & Latin; French véhicule, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vehiculum "medium, agent of transmission," going back to Latin, "wheeled vehicle, means of transport," from vehere "to carry, convey" + -culum, instrumental suffix (going back to Indo-European *-tlom) — more at way entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.

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