DELAY

delay, holdup

(noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait

(noun) time during which some action is awaited; “instant replay caused too long a delay”; “he ordered a hold in the action”

check, retard, delay

(verb) slow the growth or development of; “The brain damage will retard the child’s language development”

delay, detain, hold up

(verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed; “Traffic was delayed by the bad weather”; “she delayed the work that she didn’t want to perform”

stay, detain, delay

(verb) stop or halt; “Please stay the bloodshed!”

delay

(verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required; “Don’t delay your application to graduate school or else it won’t be considered”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

Synonyms

• (period of time): cunctation, hold-up; see also delay

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

(ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.

(transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (put off until a later time): adjourn, defer, forslow, penelopize, postpone, put off, put on ice, suspend; See also procrastinate

• (retard): forslow, get in the way, hold up, impede; See also hinder

• (allay): calm, moderate, quell; See also pacify

Etymology 2

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

(obsolete) To dilute, temper.

(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

Anagrams

• Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady

Proper noun

Delay (plural Delays)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Delay is the 9037^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3616 individuals. Delay is most common among White (82.13%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady

Source: Wiktionary

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De*lay", n.; pl. Delays. Etym: [F. délai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See Tolerate, and cf. Differ, Delay, v.]

Definition: A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

De*lay", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Delaying.] Etym: [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun délai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See Delay, n., and cf. Delate, 1st Defer, Dilate.]

1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv. 48.

2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.

De*lay", v. i.

Definition: To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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