| 单词 | delay |
| 释义 | delay (once / 99 pages) nv A delay is a wait or a postponement. An unexpected delay before the start of a play might make the audience restless and noisy. During a delay, you have to wait around for things to begin. Delay is also a verb: "That burnt pizza is going to delay dinner for at least another hour." You can also delay by loitering or hanging around: "The performer always delays when he's nervous about singing in front of a crowd." Delay comes from the Old French delaiier, from the roots de-, "not," and laier, "leave." WORD FAMILYdelay: delayed, delayer, delaying, delays+/delayer: delayers USAGE EXAMPLESDepending on the severity of these symptoms, patients may need to delay treatment and begin a course of steroids and or discontinue the drug immediately. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) He said the agency apologizes to travelers who were delayed getting into the country after long flights. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Navy denies there’s been any delays in port access. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n time during which some action is awaited instant replay caused too long a delay Syn|Hypo|Hyper hold, postponement, time lag, wait extension a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt moratoriuma legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged retardationthe extent to which something is delayed or held back break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something 2n the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time Syn|Hypo|Hyper holdup break, disruption, gap, interruption an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity demurragedetention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure forbearancea delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting deferment, deferral, postponementact of putting off to a future time cunctation, procrastination, shillyshallythe act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time lag, retardation, slowdownthe act of slowing down or falling behind dalliance, dawdling, triflingthe deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working filibuster(law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches lingering, tarriancethe act of tarrying cut-in, insert(film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film cut-in, insert(broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program adjournmentthe act of postponing to another time or place interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interpositionthe action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts abruption, breaking offan instance of sudden interruption barracking, hecklingshouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree inactivity being inactive; being less active 3v 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 Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper detain, hold up hurry, rush urge to an unnatural speed stonewall engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate catchdelay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned stalldeliberately delay an event or action buy timeact so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up lose velocity; move more slowly 4v slow the growth or development of Syn|Hypo|Hyper check, retard dampen check; keep in check (a fire) detain, staystop or halt alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 5v act later than planned, scheduled, or required Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered Hypo|Hyper hesitate, pause interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stallpostpone doing what one should be doing procrastinatepostpone or delay needlessly defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, tablehold back to a later time hem and hawutter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation scruplehesitate on moral grounds callstop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather holdstop dealing with suspendrender temporarily ineffective probateput a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence reprieve, respitepostpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution hold back, hold off, wait wait before acting 6v stop or halt Syn|Hyper detain, stay check, retard slow the growth or development of |
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