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delay

noun
/dɪˈleɪ̯/

Etymology

From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally. Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to remain, continue”
  2. derived from *laibijaną✻ — “to leave, cause to stay”
  3. derived from *laibijan✻
  4. derived from *leh₁d-✻ — “to leave, leave behind”
  5. derived from *latjaną✻ — “to delay, hinder, stall”
  6. derived from *lattjan✻
  7. derived from laier — “to leave”
  8. derived from delaier
  9. inherited from delaien

Definitions

  1. A period of time before an event occurs

    A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

    • the delay before the echo of a sound
    • Two twenty minutes' delays.
    • Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.

  2. An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

    • The 8-bit sound quality of many early delays did indeed leave a lot to be desired (compare this to the 16-bit digital technology of CDs)

  3. Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick

      An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.

    2. To put off until a later time

      To put off until a later time; to defer.

      • My lord delayeth his coming.

    3. To retard

      To retard; to temporarily stop, detain, or hinder.

      • The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.

    4. To wait, hesitate, tarry.

      • Don't delay; this special offer ends at midnight!
      • Don't delay Something tells me I gotta go away

    5. To allay

      To allay; to temper.

      • The watery showers delay the raging wind.

    6. To dilute, temper.

    7. To assuage, quench, allay.

      • Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].

    8. A surname.

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Derived

broadcast delay, call delay, danger in delay, delay differential equation, delay line, delay slot, delay tactic, delay time, language delay, multidelay, predelay, profanity delay, propagation delay, rain delay, round-trip delay time, Shapiro delay, tape delay, time-delay, time delay, delayability, delayable, delayal, delayed critical, delayed criticality, delayed ejaculation, delayed miscarriage, delayed neutron, delayed-onset muscle soreness, delayed onset muscle soreness, delayed puberty, delayed sleep phase disorder, delayer, delayingly, delaying tactic, delayism, delay no more, justice delayed is justice denied, nondelaying, redelay, undelaying

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at delay. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at delay. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at delay

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA