defer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō. Doublet of differ and dilate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, relate and refer as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Inflected forms:
form: defers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deferring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deferred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deferred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To delay or postpone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.
Deferre the ſpoile of the Citie vntill night:
My journey to Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.
gloss: To delay or postpone.
pos: verb
tags: common
especially
transitive
gloss: After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
pos: verb
gloss: To delay, to wait.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: God […] will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name
Related words: differ
Derived words: deferment
deferrability
deferrable
deferral
deferrer
nondeferring
overdefer
redefer
tax-deferred
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: տարկետել
roman: tarketel
lang: Bulgarian
word: отлагам
roman: otlagam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отсрочвам
roman: otsročvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 延緩 /延缓
roman: yánhuǎn
lang: Czech
word: odkládat
lang: Czech
word: zpozdit
lang: Czech
word: zdržet
lang: Czech
word: pozdržet
lang: Czech
word: opozdit
lang: Czech
word: odložit
lang: Czech
word: oddalovat
lang: Czech
word: oddálit
lang: Dutch
word: uitstellen
lang: Finnish
word: lykätä
lang: Finnish
word: myöhentää
lang: French
word: différer
lang: French
word: reporter
lang: French
word: remettre
lang: German
word: aufschieben
lang: German
word: aufheben
lang: German
word: verzögern
lang: German
word: vertagen
lang: German
word: verschieben
lang: German
word: zurückstellen
lang: German
word: hinausschieben
lang: German
word: stunden
lang: German
word: aussetzen
lang: German
word: den Vortritt lassen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀναβάλλω
roman: anabállō
lang: Hungarian
word: elhalaszt
lang: Japanese
word: 延期する
roman: enki suru
lang: Māori
word: tinaku
lang: Māori
word: whakatārewa
lang: Middle English
word: differren
lang: Polish
word: odraczać
lang: Polish
word: odroczyć
lang: Polish
word: odkładać
lang: Polish
word: odłożyć
lang: Portuguese
word: adiar
lang: Portuguese
word: pospor
lang: Russian
word: откла́дывать
roman: otkládyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: отложи́ть
roman: otložítʹ
lang: Russian
word: отсро́чивать
roman: otsróčivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: отсро́чить
roman: otsróčitʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: одгодити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odgoditi
lang: Spanish
word: diferir
lang: Swedish
word: skjuta upp
lang: Turkish
word: geciktirmek
lang: Turkish
word: tehir etmek
lang: Turkish
word: bekletmek
lang: Turkish
word: yubatmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صالمق
roman: salmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: відклада́ти
roman: vidkladáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відкла́сти
roman: vidklásty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відстро́чувати
roman: vidstróčuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відстро́чити
roman: vidstróčyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відтерміно́вувати
roman: vidterminóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відтермінува́ти
roman: vidterminuváty