Literary notes about Vehicle (AI summary)
The term “vehicle” in literature is employed with a rich duality, functioning both as a tangible means of transport and a metaphor for channels of thought, expression, or cultural values. In works of technical and historical writing, it often refers to physical conveyances—ranging from spacecraft and rockets that launch satellites into orbit [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] to carriages and wagons that carry characters on their journeys [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]—imparting a concrete sense of movement and progress. In contrast, philosophical and poetic texts use “vehicle” figuratively, describing language as the medium that conveys thought [17, 18, 19, 20] or ideas as instruments that shape human experience and morality [21, 22, 23]. Thus, across diverse genres, “vehicle” serves as a versatile symbol, carrying both literal passengers and intangible ideals.
- A final Sergeant motor is attached to the base of the satellite to provide the velocity necessary to place the vehicle in orbit.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - View from right-hand seat of Gemini 8 spacecraft when docked with Agena target vehicle.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Farside was a four-stage rocket launched from a balloon as an extremely high-altitude research vehicle.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - The Project Orion Test Vehicle was first flown successfully in October 1959.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - The first Apollo/Saturn 5 space vehicle on its way to the launch pad.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - The journey began with lift-off on August 27 from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas Agena-B launch vehicle.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - The Agena launch vehicle was developed and manufactured by the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company for the United States Air Force.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Three-stage Vanguard launch vehicle boosts the second American satellite into Earth-orbit, March 17, 1958.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Four-stage Scout vehicle launches satellite from the Western Test Range, California.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Mercury spacecraft had been used in two previous manned suborbital flights which proved that it was a safe vehicle for manned space flights.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - Within the vehicle were seated the fair Octavie and her old friend and neighbor, Judge Pillier, who had come to take her for a morning drive.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - The clumsy vehicle stopped at the gate of the town; all the places had been taken, for there were twelve passengers in the coach.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen - carriage &c. (vehicle) 272; ship &c. 273.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - She drove away alone with the Count in a vehicle which she did not particularly notice at the time.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - As the waggon approached her, the driver had fallen behind, but there was something in the front of the big vehicle which encouraged her.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot - At the end of an instant’s observation he heard the noise of a vehicle, and saw Milady’s carriage stop opposite to him.
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - That Thought is a vehicle of choice as well as of cognition; and among the choices it makes are these appropriations, or repudiations, of its 'own.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - “ Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ”
— from Spare Hours by John Brown - Human language was too gross a vehicle of thought—thought being incapable of absolute translation.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler - The vehicle of expression is language,—either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - On this circumstance hangs that subtle congruity between subject and vehicle which is otherwise such a mystery in expression.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - What a dangerous weapon is given into the hands of those who have the authority to make use of falsehood as the vehicle of truth!
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - What was the power, which freed Prometheus from his vultures and transformed the myth into a vehicle of Dionysian wisdom?
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
