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delay

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (to leave), a conflation of Old Frankish *latjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjan? (to delay, hinder, stall), from Proto-Indo-European *le(y)d- (to leave, leave behind)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijan? (to leave, cause to stay), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (to remain, continue)). Akin to Old English latian (to delay, hesitate), Old English latu (a delay, a hindrance), Old English l?fan (to leave). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??le?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /d??le?/, /d?-/
  • Rhymes: -e?
  • Hyphenation: de?lay

Noun

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

  1. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
  2. (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
  3. (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (object representing delayed result)

Synonyms

  • (period of time): cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay
Descendants
  • ? Portuguese: delay
Translations

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
    • My lord delayeth his coming.
  2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
    • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart
      The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
  • (put off until a later time): adjourn, defer, forslow, penelopize, postpone, put off, put on ice, suspend; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
  • (retard): forslow, get in the way, hold up, impede; See also Thesaurus:hinder
  • (allay): calm, moderate, quell; See also Thesaurus:pacify
Derived terms
  • justice delayed is justice denied
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English delaien, from Old French delaiier, a variant of delaissier.

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

  1. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
  2. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
      Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].

Further reading

  • delay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • delay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady

Maranao

Noun

delay

  1. Job's tears

References

  • A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English delay.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.?lej/

Noun

delay m (plural delays)

  1. (posh, except in technical contexts) delay (period of time before an event being initiated and actually occurring)
    Synonym: atraso
  2. (audio engineering) delay (effect that produces echo-like repetitions in sound)
  3. (audio engineering) delay (unit that produces a delay effect)

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intermit

English

Etymology

From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?nt??m?t/
    • (UK)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?nt??m?t/

Verb

intermit (third-person singular simple present intermits, present participle intermitting, simple past and past participle intermitted)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
    • Idleness [] of body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”

Derived terms

  • intermittence
  • intermittency
  • intermittent

Related terms

  • intermission
  • mission

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