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
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.
• (period of time): cunctation, hold-up; see also delay
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.
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs
• (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
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.
• Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady
Delay (plural Delays)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Delay is the 9037th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3616 individuals. Delay is most common among White (82.13%) individuals.
• Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady
Source: Wiktionary
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
20 April 2024
(adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
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