Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To postpone until a later time; defer.
- intransitive verb To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired.
- intransitive verb To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
- noun The act of delaying; postponement.
- noun The condition of being delayed; detainment.
- noun The period of time during which one is delayed.
- noun The interval of time between two events.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put off; defer; postpone; remit to a later time, as something to be done.
- To retard; stop, detain, or hinder for a time; obstruct or impede the course or progress of: as, the mail is delayed by bad roads.
- To linger; move slowly; stop for a time; loiter; be dilatory.
- noun A putting off; a deferring; an extension of the time; postponement; procrastination: as, the delay of trial.
- noun A lingering; loitering; stay; hindrance to progress.
- To alloy; dilute; temper; soften; weaken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
- intransitive verb To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
- transitive verb To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
- transitive verb To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of.
- transitive verb obsolete To allay; to temper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
put off until a later time; todistract . - verb To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
- noun previously unexpected period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying.
- verb obsolete To
dilute ,temper . - verb obsolete To
assuage ,quench ,allay .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to be slowed down or delayed
- noun the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- verb stop or halt
- verb slow the growth or development of
- noun time during which some action is awaited
- verb act later than planned, scheduled, or required
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the press box, the official time of the rain delay is announced: 46 hours even.
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But here, a certain delay is permitted, the more signally to manifest the power of Christ and accomplish His purposes.
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As I understand the delay is actually a few months, but Celestial mechanics dictates a longer frame, following hoffman low energy trajectories I presume ...
MSL Delay: Add 2 Years and $400 Million (and counting) - NASA Watch 2008
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One reason for the delay is the difficulty in raising equity financing, Mr. Musk wrote.
Tesla Motors Zaps Another C.E.O. and Lays Off Staff - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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One reason for the delay is the difficulty in raising equity financing, Mr. Musk wrote.
Tesla Motors Zaps Another C.E.O. and Lays Off Staff - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Many of those engineers feel a since of relief that this delay is here - they want to make sure they are doing the right thing (reduced risk).
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America's space agency, NASA, has been researching what it calls the delay- or disruption- tolerant network protocol, or DTN.
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So maybe the delay is all over now, and now just here in the west.
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America's space agency, NASA, has been researching what it calls the delay- or disruption- tolerant network protocol, or DTN.
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One good thing for microsoft with the vista delay is they now have some time to improve their core search product … If they succeed in making it somewhat decent (if not better than google), i think the coming vista/IE 7 search box will atleast double their search marketshare in the next 3 years.
Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream. « The Paradigm Shift 2006
brusselsprouts commented on the word delay
Something United Airlines just did
February 5, 2008