delay
see also: Delay
Pronunciation
Delay
Proper noun
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see also: Delay
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈleɪ/
delay
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- the delay before the echo of a sound
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 25:17 ↗:
- Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- (period of time) cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay
- French: délai, retard
- German: Verzögerung, Verspätung
- Italian: ritardo
- Portuguese: atraso, demora, mora, espera
- Russian: заде́ржка
- Spanish: retraso, demora
delay (delays, present participle delaying; past and past participle delayed)
- (ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
- Bible, Gospel of Matthew 24:48
- My lord delayeth his coming.
- Bible, Gospel of Matthew 24:48
- To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
- The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
- (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
- The watery showers delay the raging wind.
- (put off until a later time) adjourn, defer, forslow, penelopize, postpone, put off, put on ice, suspend; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
- (retard) forslow, get in the way, hold up, impede; See also Thesaurus:hinder
- (allay) calm, moderate, quell; See also Thesaurus:pacify
- French: retarder
- German: verspäten, verschieben, vertagen, aufschieben
- Italian: rimandare
- Portuguese: atrasar, adiar, protelar, postergar, retardar
- Russian: откла́дывать
- Spanish: retrasar, demorar
delay (delays, present participle delaying; past and past participle delayed)
- (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
- (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
Delay
Proper noun
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