delay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally.
Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.
Inflected forms:
form: delays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: delaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: delayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: delayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the delay before the echo of a sound
Two twenty minutes' delays.
Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
In this article I'm thinking about the big delays, over two hours. While rare, they make the news and help to deter people from future rail travel, both travellers and news viewers.
gloss: An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The 8-bit sound quality of many early delays did indeed leave a lot to be desired (compare this to the 16-bit digital technology of CDs)
gloss: Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To put off until a later time; to defer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My lord delayeth his coming.
gloss: To retard; to temporarily stop, detain, or hinder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
gloss: To wait, hesitate, tarry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Don't delay; this special offer ends at midnight!
Don't delay
Something tells me I gotta go away
gloss: To allay; to temper.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Synonyms: hold-up
deferment
delay
dilation
detain
hinder
hesitance
hesitancy
hesitation
holdoff
postponement
prorogation
respite
retard
forslow
get in the way of
hold up
impede
moderate
quell
Related words: delayed
pause
wait
Derived words: broadcast delay
call delay
danger in delay
delay differential equation
delay line
delay slot
delay tactic
delay time
language delay
multidelay
predelay
profanity delay
propagation delay
rain delay
round-trip delay time
Shapiro delay
tape delay
time-delay
time delay
delayability
delayable
delayal
delayed critical
delayed criticality
delayed ejaculation
delayed miscarriage
delayed neutron
delayed-onset muscle soreness
delayed onset muscle soreness
delayed puberty
delayed sleep phase disorder
delayer
delayingly
delaying tactic
delayism
delay no more
justice delayed is justice denied
nondelaying
redelay
undelaying
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