different between postdate vs temporize

English

Alternative forms

• post-date

Etymology

post- +? date

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??st?de?t/

Verb

postdate (third-person singular simple present postdates, present participle postdating, simple past and past participle postdated)

1. (transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time
2. (transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date

3. (transitive) To affix a date to after the event.

Synonyms

• (to assign a date later than the actual date): overdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate

Antonyms

• (to exist later on in time): predate; see also Thesaurus:predate
• (to assign a date later than the actual date): predate; see also Thesaurus:backdate

Translations

Adjective

postdate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

Noun

postdate (plural postdates)

1. A date on a document later than the real date on which it was written.

Anagrams

• adoptest, despotat, spot date

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: postdatent, postdates

Verb

postdate

1. first-person singular present indicative of postdater
2. third-person singular present indicative of postdater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of postdater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of postdater
5. second-person singular imperative of postdater

English

Etymology

From Middle French temporiser (“to wait one's time, temporize”) + English -ize (suffix forming verbs). Temporiser is derived from Medieval Latin temporiz?re, from Latin tempor?re (“to delay, put off”) + -iz?re (suffix forming the present active infinitive of verbs). Tempor?re is derived from tempor-, the inflected stem of tempus (“age, time, period; season of the year; due, opportune, or proper time”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temp-, *ten- (“to extend, stretch (in the sense of a stretch of time)”), or *temh?- (“to cut (in the sense of a section of time)”)) + -?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?mp??a?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?mp???a?z/
• Hyphenation: temp?or?ize

Verb

temporize (third-person singular simple present temporizes, present participle temporizing, simple past and past participle temporized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (intransitive) To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
3. (transitive, dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim (“fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each”).
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• temporise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Derived terms

• temporization
• temporized (adjective)
• temporizer

Translations

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