Delay word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "delay" word
[noun] time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
[verb] slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
[verb] cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"
[verb] stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
[verb] act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
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\De*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d['e]lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See {Delay}, n., and cf. {Delate}, 1st {Defer}, {Dilate}.] 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. --Matt. xxiv. 48. 2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton. 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey.
\De*lay"\, v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. --Locke.
Synonyms for delay
check, hold, hold up, holdup, postponement, retard, time lag, wait
Antonyms: hurry, rush
See also: alter | break | catch | cunctation | dampen | defer | dilly-dally | disruption | drag one's feet | filibuster | hesitate | hold back | interruption | moratorium | postpone | put off | slow | stall | table | wait |
Related terms: be a sideliner, bide the issue, bottle up, dawdle, drag, drag along, flagging, hang-up, hang about, hindering, interlude, keep, keep in check, lag, let, letup, minus acceleration, moratorium, mull, put aside, set back, shift off, sideline, sleep on, slow down, stick around, suspend, tie-up, vacillate, waste time
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Let's analyse "delay" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and Two vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: YALED. Average typing speed for these characters is 1430 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
delay: 5 + 1 = 6, reduced: 6 (or 4 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Six. |
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