Definition of delay

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Delay (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..

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Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay..
Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..
Latered :: Latered (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory.
Respite :: Respite (n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.
Delayment :: Delayment (n.) Hindrance.
Delays :: Delays (pl. ) of Dela.
Cunctative :: Cunctative (a.) Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
Suspensor :: Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful..
Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage..
Lag :: Lag (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end..
Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel..
Sojourn :: Sojourn (v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry..
Bode :: Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay.
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.
Dilatorily :: Dilatorily (adv.) With delay; tardily.
Moration :: Moration (n.) A delaying tarrying; delay.
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Dilation :: Dilation (n.) Delay.
Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..
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