'Delay' definitions:
Definition of 'delay'
From: WordNet
noun
Time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" [syn: delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait]
noun
The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time [syn: delay, holdup]
verb
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: delay, detain, hold up] [ant: hurry, rush]
verb
Act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
verb
verb
Definition of 'Delay'
From: GCIDE
- Delay \De*lay"\, v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Delay'
From: GCIDE
- Delay \De*lay"\, n.; pl. Delays. [F. d['e]lai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See Tolerate, and cf. Differ, Delay, v.] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. [1913 Webster]
- Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. --Acts xxv. 17. [1913 Webster]
- The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Delay'
From: GCIDE
- Delay \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. [1913 Webster]
- My lord delayeth his coming. --Matt. xxiv. 48. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'delay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- adjourn,
- afterthought,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- await,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- be a sideliner,
- be still,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bog down,
- bottle up,
- brake,
- bureaucratic delay,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coast,
- confine,
- constriction,
- continue,
- countercheck,
- cramp,
- curb,
- dally,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dawdle,
- dawdling,
- decelerate,
- deceleration,
- defer,
- deferment,
- deferral,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detain,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dilly,
- dillydally,
- do nothing,
- double take,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag out,
- dragging,
- draw rein,
- drift,
- drone,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- extend,
- falter,
- fixation,
- flag,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gap,
- goof off,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- hang up,
- hang-up,
- hesitate,
- hiatus,
- hibernate,
- hinder,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- hold back,
- hold everything,
- hold in check,
- hold off,
- hold on,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- hold your horses,
- hold-up,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- idle,
- impede,
- impediment,
- inhibit,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermeddle,
- intermit,
- interrupt,
- interruption,
- interval,
- intervene,
- jam,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lag behind,
- lagging,
- lay aside,
- lay away,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- let,
- let down,
- let up,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lie dormant,
- linger,
- logjam,
- loiter,
- loitering,
- lollygag,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- lull,
- make late,
- mark time,
- meddle,
- minus acceleration,
- mire,
- moderate,
- moratorium,
- mull,
- negativism,
- not budge,
- not stir,
- nuisance value,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- oppose,
- opposition,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pigeonhole,
- poke,
- poke along,
- postpone,
- postponement,
- procrastinate,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- put away,
- put in mothballs,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reef,
- rein in,
- relax,
- repress,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- reserve,
- resist,
- resistance,
- respite,
- rest,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retard,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- scotch,
- set aside,
- set back,
- set by,
- setback,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- sideline,
- sit back,
- sit it out,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slack-up,
- slacken,
- slackening,
- sleep on,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- snub,
- squeeze,
- stagnate,
- stall,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- store,
- stow,
- stranglehold,
- stretch out,
- stricture,
- suppress,
- suppression,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- table,
- table the motion,
- take a recess,
- take in sail,
- take time,
- tarry,
- tarrying,
- temporize,
- throttle down,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- trail,
- vacillate,
- vegetate,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waiting,
- waive,
- waste time,
- watch and wait,
- waver