delay

1. v. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Source: opted

2. n. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. Source: opted

3. n. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Source: opted

4. n. To allay; to temper. Source: opted

5. v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. Source: opted

6. n. time during which some action is awaited Source: wordnet

7. n. the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time Source: wordnet

8. v. cause to be slowed down or delayed Source: wordnet

9. v. act later than planned, scheduled, or required Source: wordnet

10. v. stop or halt Source: wordnet

11. v. slow the growth or development of Source: wordnet

12. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv. 48. 2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton. 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke. Source: webster

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