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vespa

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for vespa.

Editorial note

You don't drive a Vespa across the Atlantic Ocean and you don't use a 747 to go to the grocery store.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An Italian motor scooter.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of vespa gathered in one view.

noun

An Italian motor scooter.

noun

A surname from Italian.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vespa.

noun

An Italian motor scooter.

noun

A surname from Italian.

Example sentences

1

You don't drive a Vespa across the Atlantic Ocean and you don't use a 747 to go to the grocery store.

2

Krita is great for what it is, but saying 'Goodbye Photoshop, hello Krita' is akin to saying 'Goodbye tractor, hello vespa'.

3

If all you're doing is trying to get from A to B, a vespa certainly may be a better option, but don't think that a vespa can do what a tractor can do.

4

Node.js feels like a Vespa that you can hop on and drive around.

5

Just as a Vespa would have poor gas mileage carrying heavy truck cargo - this has nothing to do with the energy source.

6

A vespa or scooter is a pretty good way of getting around too.

7

If you can’t get a car, get a second hand vespa for example and paint it, to make it look 'like a new one'.

8

Onyx uses vespa.ai for BM25 and vector search, I decided to go down the Postgres-only route.

9

Are they having trouble getting people to download the Vespa app?

10

It would basically be the Vespa of the driverless age.

11

It's a left-handed lug nut for a 1975 Vespa scooter.

12

You can't go on the interstate with a vespa.

Quote examples

1

From a young age I learned how to tuck myself in the "well" of a Vespa between my father and the handlebars so we can get from place to place.

2

A few years ago I pulled up to a four-way stop on my Vespa Granturismo at the same time that there were 3 other Vespa riders pulled up to the other three sides and I thought to myself, "wow, just look at all of the quirky individualist non-conformists!"

3

But since the size of the country is much larger, there's the governors and mayors of large cities which govern about as many people as the head of Uruguay and I'm fairly certain that each of those has a "palace" about as big as the presidential palace in Uruguay, a motorcade, a security detail larger than 2 armed guards and neither of them showed up on a vespa after elected or - for that matter - any time at all.

Proper noun examples

1

I've lived in China (Beijing and Shanghai) for ~5 years, and frequently ride bicycles and an electric Vespa-style scooter.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use vespa in a sentence?

You don't drive a Vespa across the Atlantic Ocean and you don't use a 747 to go to the grocery store.

What does vespa mean?

An Italian motor scooter.

What part of speech is vespa?

vespa is commonly used as noun.