source: けものフレンズ GIF - KemonoFriends - Discover & Share GIFs

1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart:

乗り物, 車 (!通例陸上用でエンジン･車輪の付いたものをいう)

e.g. the vehicle was sent skidding across the road

e.g. a heavy goods vehicle.

2. a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something:

【思想･考えなどの】表現手段, 伝達手段, 媒体 «for, of»

e.g. I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas.

a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it:

【目的達成の】手段, 方法

e.g. 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. Often contrasted with tenor2 (sense 1).

3. a movie, television program, song, etc., that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage:

e.g. a vehicle for a star who was one of Hollywood's hottest properties.

early 17th century: from French véhicule or Latin vehiculum, from vehere ‘carry’.