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defer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /d??f?/
- Hyphenation: de?fer
Etymology 1
Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differ?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive) To delay or postpone
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
Derived terms
- deferral
- deferment
Related terms
- differ
Translations
Etymology 2
From late Middle English differren (“to refer for judgement”), from Middle French déférer, from Latin d?fer?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive, intransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
- worship deferred to the Virgin
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
Derived terms
- deference
Translations
Anagrams
- freed, refed
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?de?.fer/, [?d?e?f?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?de.fer/, [?d???f?r]
Verb
d?fer
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?fer?
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defier
English
Etymology
defy +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??fa?(j)?(?)/
Noun
defier (plural defiers)
- agent noun of defy; one who dares and defies
- c. 1859, Thomas de Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- She droops not; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide, may be read from the very ground. She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides.
- c. 1859, Thomas de Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
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