different between obstruct vs delay
obstruct
English
Etymology
From Latin past participle stem obstruct- (“blocked up”), from verb obstruere, from ob (“against”) + struere (“pile up, build”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?st??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
obstruct (third-person singular simple present obstructs, present participle obstructing, simple past and past participle obstructed)
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
- To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
- To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hinder
Derived terms
- deobstruct
- obstructed
- obstructedly
- unobstructed
- unobstructedly
Related terms
Translations
obstruct From the web:
- what obstructs marine flow
- what obstruction means
- what obstructive sleep apnea
- what obstructs wifi signals
- what obstruction of justice
- what obstructive jaundice
- what restrictions
- what restrictions apply to provisional licenses
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)
delay From the web:
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- what delayed the annexation of texas
- what delayed means
- what delays the process of extinction
- what delays ovulation
- what delays periods
- what delayed the ratification of the articles of confederation
- what delayed industrialization in france and germany
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