delay : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: delay	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delay n time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" Synonym(s): delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time Synonym(s): delay, holdup v 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" Synonym(s): delay, detain, hold up Antonym(s): hurry, rush act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered" stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" Synonym(s): stay, detain, delay slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" Synonym(s): check, retard, delay
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delay \Delay"\, n.; pl. {Delays}. [F. d[82]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. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. --Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay* of a day. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delay \Delay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d[82]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delay \Delay"\, 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.