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delay
de·lay D0108800 (dĭ-lā′)v. de·layed, de·lay·ing, de·lays v.tr.1. To postpone until a later time; defer.2. To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired: Heavy traffic delayed us.v.intr. To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.n.1. The act of delaying; postponement: responded without delay.2. The condition of being delayed; detainment.3. The period of time during which one is delayed.4. The interval of time between two events.
[Middle English delaien, from Anglo-Norman delaier, from Old French deslaier : des-, de- + laier, to leave, of Germanic origin; see leip- in Indo-European roots.]
de·lay′er n.delay (dɪˈleɪ) vb1. (tr) to put off to a later time; defer2. (tr) to slow up, hinder, or cause to be late; detain3. (intr) to be irresolute or put off doing something; procrastinate4. (intr) to linger; dawdlen5. the act or an instance of delaying or being delayed6. the interval between one event and another; lull; interlude[C13: from Old French delaier, from des- off + laier, variant of laissier to leave, from Latin laxāre to loosen, from laxus slack, lax] deˈlayer nde•lay (dɪˈleɪ)
v.t. 1. to put off to a later time; postpone. 2. to impede the process or progress of; retard: The fog delayed the plane's landing. v.i. 3. to put off action; linger; loiter. n. 4. the act of delaying; procrastination; loitering. 5. an instance of being delayed. [1225–75; < Old French delaier (v.), delai (n.)] de•lay′a•ble, adj. de•lay′er, n. syn: See defer1. delay cancel">cancel postpone">postpone put off">put off1. 'delay'If you delay doing something, you do it at a later time. The government delayed granting passports to them until a week before their departure.Try and persuade them to delay some of the changes.If a plane, train, ship, or bus is delayed, it is prevented from leaving or arriving on time. The coach was delayed for about five hours.The flight has been delayed one hour, due to weather conditions.2. 'cancel'If you cancel something that was arranged, you decide officially that it will not take place. The Russian foreign minister has cancelled his trip to Washington.Over 80 flights were cancelled because of bad weather.3. 'postpone' and 'put off'If you postpone or put off an event, you arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned. Postpone is more formal than put off. The crew did not know that the invasion had been postponed.This is not a decision that can be put off much longer.The Association has put the event off until October.delay
Past participle: delayed
Gerund: delaying
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| I delay | | you delay | | he/she/it delays | | we delay | | you delay | | they delay |
| Preterite |
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| I delayed | | you delayed | | he/she/it delayed | | we delayed | | you delayed | | they delayed |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am delaying | | you are delaying | | he/she/it is delaying | | we are delaying | | you are delaying | | they are delaying |
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| I have delayed | | you have delayed | | he/she/it has delayed | | we have delayed | | you have delayed | | they have delayed |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was delaying | | you were delaying | | he/she/it was delaying | | we were delaying | | you were delaying | | they were delaying |
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| I had delayed | | you had delayed | | he/she/it had delayed | | we had delayed | | you had delayed | | they had delayed |
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| I will delay | | you will delay | | he/she/it will delay | | we will delay | | you will delay | | they will delay |
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| I will have delayed | | you will have delayed | | he/she/it will have delayed | | we will have delayed | | you will have delayed | | they will have delayed |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be delaying | | you will be delaying | | he/she/it will be delaying | | we will be delaying | | you will be delaying | | they will be delaying |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been delaying | | you have been delaying | | he/she/it has been delaying | | we have been delaying | | you have been delaying | | they have been delaying |
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| I will have been delaying | | you will have been delaying | | he/she/it will have been delaying | | we will have been delaying | | you will have been delaying | | they will have been delaying |
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| I had been delaying | | you had been delaying | | he/she/it had been delaying | | we had been delaying | | you had been delaying | | they had been delaying |
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| I would delay | | you would delay | | he/she/it would delay | | we would delay | | you would delay | | they would delay |
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| I would have delayed | | you would have delayed | | he/she/it would have delayed | | we would have delayed | | you would have delayed | | they would have delayed |
delayOffensive strategy to use up time by denying the ball to the opponents and thus preserve a lead.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  delay - time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"postponement, time lag, wait, holdpause, suspension, intermission, interruption, break - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of somethingextension - a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan"moratorium - a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be dischargedretardation - the extent to which something is delayed or held back | | 2. | delay - the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later timeholdupdisruption, interruption, gap, break - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"inactivity - being inactive; being less activedemurrage - detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departureforbearance - a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"deferment, deferral, postponement - act of putting off to a future timecunctation, procrastination, shillyshally - the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later timelag, slowdown, retardation - the act of slowing down or falling behinddalliance, dawdling, trifling - the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of workingfilibuster - (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speecheslingering, tarriance - the act of tarrying | | Verb | 1. | delay - 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"detain, hold updecelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard - lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"stonewall - engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"catch - delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned; "I was caught in traffic and missed the meeting"stall - deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"buy time - act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantagehurry, rush - urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!" | | 2. | delay - act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"pause, hesitate - interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"hold off, wait, hold back - wait before acting; "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"dillydally, dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall, shillyshally - postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"procrastinate - postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"postpone, prorogue, put off, defer, set back, shelve, table, put over, remit, hold over - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" | | 3. | delay - stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"detain, stayretard, delay, check - slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" | | 4. | delay - slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"retard, checkalter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"dampen - check; keep in check (a fire)detain, delay, stay - stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" |
delayverb1. put off, suspend, postpone, stall, shelve, prolong, defer, hold over, temporize, put on the back burner (informal), protract, take a rain check on (U.S. & Canad. informal) I delayed my departure until she could join me.2. hold up, detain, hold back, stop, arrest, halt, hinder, obstruct, retard, impede, bog down, set back, slow up The passengers were delayed by bad weather.
hold up speed (up), advance, promote, urge, rush, hurry, accelerate, dispatch, facilitate, hasten, precipitate, quicken, fast-track, expedite3. linger, lag, loiter, dawdle, tarry, dilly-dally (informal), drag your feet or heels (informal) If he delayed any longer, the sun would be up.noun1. hold-up, wait, check, setback, interruption, obstruction, stoppage, impediment, hindrance Air restrictions might mean delays for Easter holidaymakers.2. dawdling, lingering, loitering, procrastination, tarrying, dilly-dallying (informal) We'll send you a quote without delay.3. postponement, suspension, putting off, adjournment, stay, deferment, deferral A delay of the federal trial was granted.delayverb1. To put off until a later time:adjourn, defer, hold off, hold up, postpone, remit, shelve, stay, suspend, table, waive.Informal: wait.Idiom: put on ice.2. To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired:detain, hang up, hold up, lag, retard, set back, slow (down or up), stall.3. To go or move slowly so that progress is hindered:dally, dawdle, dilly-dally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, poke, procrastinate, tarry, trail.Idioms: drag one's feet, mark time, take one's time.noun1. The act of putting off or the condition of being put off:adjournment, deferment, deferral, postponement, stay, suspension, waiver.2. The condition or fact of being made late or slow:detainment, holdup, lag, retardation.Translationsdelay (diˈlei) verb1. to put off to another time. We have delayed publication of the book till the spring. 延後 推迟2. to keep or stay back or slow down. I was delayed by the traffic. 延誤 延误 noun (something which causes) keeping back or slowing down. He came without delay; My work is subject to delays. 耽擱 耽搁delay
justice delayed is justice deniedJustice served at a later time has as little impact as justice not being served at all. A: "We need to get this matter before a judge quickly." B: "Of course. Justice delayed is justice denied."See also: delay, deny, justicedesires are nourished by delaysOne's interest in something will grow as one waits for it. A: "Ugh, I still haven't heard back from the recruiter at my dream job." B: "At least desires are nourished by delays."See also: by, delay, desire, nourishDesires are nourished by delays.Prov. The longer you have to wait for something you want, the more eager you will be to get it. The longer I had to postpone my trip to San Francisco, the more eagerly I wanted to go. Desires are nourished by delays.See also: by, delay, Desire, nourishdelay
delay[di′lā] (communications) Time required for a signal to pass through a device or a conducting medium. Time which elapses between the instant at which any designated point of a transmitted wave passes any two designated points of a transmission circuit; such delay is primarily determined by the constants of the circuit. (industrial engineering) Interruption of the normal tempo of an operation; may be avoidable or unavoidable. Delay in automatic control systems, a phenomenon that consists in the fact that when the input signal of a system or device begins to change, the output signal begins to change only after a certain time interval, called the delay time. The component of the delay time determined by the final intrinsic rate of propagation of the signal is called the transport delay. Delay may also be caused by the inertia of the system. In electronic simulation equipment, delay is created artificially in delay circuits, which retard the reproduction of the signal by some predetermined time interval. Such delay is used in the simulation of many technological processes associated with matter transfer or power transmission. delayi. As it pertains to air traffic control, delays are incurred when a controller takes any action that prevents an aircraft from proceeding normally to its destination for an interval of 15 minutes or more. This includes actions to delay departing, en route, or arriving aircraft, as well as actions taken at destination airports. See also absolute delay.
ii. In radar operations, the ground distance from a point directly beneath the aircraft to the beginning of the area of a radar scan.
iii. The electronic delay of the start of the time base used to select a particular segment of the total.delay
delay [de-la´] a postponement to a later time.atrioventricular delay (AV delay) interval" >atrioventricular interval (def. 2).delay (dĕ-lā'), 1. In a medical sense, to put off for a time, either for clinical reasons or through physiologic dysfunction. 2. The elapsed time inherent in sense 1. de·lay (dĕ-lā') Postponement or deferral to a later time. [O.Fr. deslaier, fr. Germanic]delay
Related to delay: developmental delay, Propagation delaydelay failure to perform on time.DELAY, civil law. The time allowed either by law or by agreement of the parties to do something.
2. The law allows a delay, for a party who has been summoned to appear, to make defence, to appeal; it admits of a delay during which and action may be brought, certain rights exercised, and the like.
3. By the agreement of the parties there may be a delay in the payment of a debt, the fulfillment of a contract, &c. Vide Code, 3, 11, 4; Nov. 69, c. 2 Merl. Rep. h AcronymsSeeDELdelay
Related to delay: developmental delay, Propagation delaySynonyms for delayverb put offSynonyms- put off
- suspend
- postpone
- stall
- shelve
- prolong
- defer
- hold over
- temporize
- put on the back burner
- protract
- take a rain check on
verb hold upSynonyms- hold up
- detain
- hold back
- stop
- arrest
- halt
- hinder
- obstruct
- retard
- impede
- bog down
- set back
- slow up
Antonyms- speed (up)
- advance
- promote
- urge
- rush
- hurry
- accelerate
- dispatch
- facilitate
- hasten
- precipitate
- quicken
- fast-track
- expedite
verb lingerSynonyms- linger
- lag
- loiter
- dawdle
- tarry
- dilly-dally
- drag your feet or heels
noun hold-upSynonyms- hold-up
- wait
- check
- setback
- interruption
- obstruction
- stoppage
- impediment
- hindrance
noun dawdlingSynonyms- dawdling
- lingering
- loitering
- procrastination
- tarrying
- dilly-dallying
noun postponementSynonyms- postponement
- suspension
- putting off
- adjournment
- stay
- deferment
- deferral
Synonyms for delayverb to put off until a later timeSynonyms- adjourn
- defer
- hold off
- hold up
- postpone
- remit
- shelve
- stay
- suspend
- table
- waive
- wait
verb to cause to be later or slower than expected or desiredSynonyms- detain
- hang up
- hold up
- lag
- retard
- set back
- slow
- stall
verb to go or move slowly so that progress is hinderedSynonyms- dally
- dawdle
- dilly-dally
- drag
- lag
- linger
- loiter
- poke
- procrastinate
- tarry
- trail
noun the act of putting off or the condition of being put offSynonyms- adjournment
- deferment
- deferral
- postponement
- stay
- suspension
- waiver
noun the condition or fact of being made late or slowSynonyms- detainment
- holdup
- lag
- retardation
Synonyms for delaynoun time during which some action is awaitedSynonyms- postponement
- time lag
- wait
- hold
Related Words- pause
- suspension
- intermission
- interruption
- break
- extension
- moratorium
- retardation
noun the act of delayingSynonymsRelated Words- disruption
- interruption
- gap
- break
- inactivity
- demurrage
- forbearance
- deferment
- deferral
- postponement
- cunctation
- procrastination
- shillyshally
- lag
- slowdown
- retardation
- dalliance
- dawdling
- trifling
- filibuster
- lingering
- tarriance
verb cause to be slowed down or delayedSynonymsRelated Words- decelerate
- slow
- slow down
- slow up
- retard
- stonewall
- catch
- stall
- buy time
Antonymsverb act later than planned, scheduled, or requiredRelated Words- pause
- hesitate
- hold off
- wait
- hold back
- dillydally
- dilly-dally
- drag one's feet
- drag one's heels
- procrastinate
- stall
- shillyshally
- postpone
- prorogue
- put off
- defer
- set back
- shelve
- table
- put over
- remit
- hold over
verb stop or haltSynonymsRelated Wordsverb slow the growth or development ofSynonymsRelated Words- alter
- change
- modify
- dampen
- detain
- delay
- stay
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