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impediment
English
Etymology
From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?p?d?m?nt/
Noun
impediment (plural impediments)
- A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
- 1549, The Booke of Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacramentes, “Of Matrimonye,”[1]
- I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene 2,[2]
- Thus far into the bowels of the land
- Have we marched on without impediment.
- 1720, Alexander Pope, letter to Robert Digby dated 20 July, 1720, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734, London: E. Curll, 1735, p. 129,[3]
- Your kind Desire to know the State of my Health had not been unsatisfied of so long, had not that ill State been the Impediment.
- 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter Two, p. 64,[5]
- Patterns incised on this mineral form seem to evade the eye; you have to stand at a certain distance, and in a particular light, to make them out. This impediment is part of the charm for him.
- 1549, The Booke of Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacramentes, “Of Matrimonye,”[1]
- A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
- Working in a noisy factory left me with a slight hearing impediment.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 7.32,[6]
- And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,[7]
- Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes […]
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 6, p. 9,[8]
- Better for you not to be tall! In fact it is almost a kindness of Heaven to be gifted with some safe impediment of body, slightly crooked back or the like, if you much dislike the career of honor under Friedrich Wilhelm.
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 3, p. 56,[9]
- […] Walter Ivans replied as rapidly as the impediment in his speech permitted.
- (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
- 1913, Thomas McManus, “The Battle of Irish Bend” in The Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, Rockville, Connecticut, p. 36,[10]
- We were all on foot, officers and men alike. Our horses, baggage, and impediments had been left at Brashear to follow the column of General Emory.
- 1913, Thomas McManus, “The Battle of Irish Bend” in The Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, Rockville, Connecticut, p. 36,[10]
Synonyms
- hindrance
- obstruction
- obstacle
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
Derived terms
Related terms
- impede
- impedimenta
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “impediment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “impediment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin impedimentum
Noun
impediment n (plural impedimente)
- impediment
Declension
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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)
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- (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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
- My lord delayeth his coming.
- To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
- (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.
- 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
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)
- (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
- (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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
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
- 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)
- (posh, except in technical contexts) delay (period of time before an event being initiated and actually occurring)
- Synonym: atraso
- (audio engineering) delay (effect that produces echo-like repetitions in sound)
- (audio engineering) delay (unit that produces a delay effect)
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