delay
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Is delay a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.Examples: "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)"countableuncountable
2. (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).Synonyms: promisecountableuncountable
3. (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "My lord delayeth his coming."Synonyms: adjourn, defer, forslow, penelopize, postpone, put off, put on ice, suspendtransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow."; "Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold."Synonyms: belatetransitive
3. (intransitive) To wait, hesitate, tarry.Examples: "Don't delay; this special offer ends at midnight!"; "Don't delay Something tells me I gotta go away"Synonyms: procrastinateintransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.Examples: "The watery showers delay the raging wind."Synonyms: calmobsoletetransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.obsolete
2. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.Examples: "Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […]."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary