different between deferred vs deferent

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??f?d/

Verb

deferred

1. simple past tense and past participle of defer

Adjective

deferred (comparative more deferred, superlative most deferred)

1. Delayed; put off till later.

   Synonyms: delayed, postponed

2. Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.

3. (accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.

Translations

Noun

deferred (plural deferreds)

1. (programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
2. (finance) A deferred bond.
   • 2005, Robert Dubil, An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets (page 88)

     Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]

English

Etymology

From French déférent, from Latin d?fer?ns, d?ferentis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?f???nt/

Adjective

deferent (comparative more deferent, superlative most deferent)

1. Showing deference.
2. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.

Derived terms

• deferently

Related terms

• deferential

Translations

Noun

deferent (plural deferents)

1. (anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.
2. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
3. (obsolete, Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Latin

Verb

d?ferent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of d?fer?

Romanian

Etymology

From French déférent, from Latin deferens.

Adjective

deferent m or n (feminine singular deferent?, masculine plural deferen?i, feminine and neuter plural deferente)

1. deferential

Declension