'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
Stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay]
verb
Slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" [syn: check, retard, delay]

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

Words containing 'Delay'