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delay::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hold, postponement, time lag, wait |
| Type of | intermission, interruption, pause, suspension, break |
| Has types | moratorium, extension, retardation |
instant replay caused too long a delay.
delay::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | holdup |
| Type of | inactivity |
| Has types | deferment, trifling, procrastination, postponement, lingering, lag, interruption, tarriance, dawdling, cunctation, break, dalliance, retardation, shillyshally, slowdown, gap, forbearance, filibuster, disruption, demurrage, deferral |
delay::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hold back, wait, hold off |
| Has types | shillyshally, shelve, set back, remit, put over, put off, prorogue, procrastinate, postpone, pause, hold over, hesitate, drag one's heels, drag one's feet, dillydally, defer, dilly-dally, table, stall |
Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered.
Examples of delay
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Both companies declined to elaborate on the agreement to delay their litigation.
From the dailyherald.com
She objected to the committee taking no action saying enough delay has occurred.
From the stltoday.com
He pleaded for a delay so he could find time and financing for a new legal team.
From the washingtonpost.com
The delay stemmed from renegotiations on its second-lien loan with Lion Capital.
From the businessweek.com
So technically, the delay wasn't Apple's fault and you didn't buy its insurance.
From the kansas.com
She needs to learn to plan ahead, delay gratification and set fiscal priorities.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Instead of investing in growth, money is spent trying to delay the market shift.
From the forbes.com
In the fifth, after the first rain delay of the inning, Wilson lost his control.
From the freep.com
Edmunds apologized to the jury for the delay, but didn't explain what caused it.
From the freep.com
- 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"
- Time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
- The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- Act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
- Stay: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
- Check: slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
- Thomas Dale "Tom" DeLay (born April 8, 1947 in Laredo, Texas) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006. ...
- Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo.
- In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed.
