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delay
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *latjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjan? (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *le(y)d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijan? (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English l?fan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??le?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??le?/, /d?-/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: de?lay
Noun
delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
Synonyms
- (period of time): cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: delay
Translations
Verb
delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
- My lord delayeth his coming.
- To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
- (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
- a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart
- The watery showers delay the raging wind.
- a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (put off until a later time): adjourn, defer, forslow, penelopize, postpone, put off, put on ice, suspend; See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
- (retard): forslow, get in the way, hold up, impede; See also Thesaurus:hinder
- (allay): calm, moderate, quell; See also Thesaurus:pacify
Derived terms
- justice delayed is justice denied
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English delaien, from Old French delaiier, a variant of delaissier.
Verb
delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)
- (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
- (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
Further reading
- delay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- delay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Adley, Daley, Leday, dealy, ladye, layed, leady
Maranao
Noun
delay
- Job's tears
References
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English delay.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.?lej/
Noun
delay m (plural delays)
- (posh, except in technical contexts) delay (period of time before an event being initiated and actually occurring)
- Synonym: atraso
- (audio engineering) delay (effect that produces echo-like repetitions in sound)
- (audio engineering) delay (unit that produces a delay effect)
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deadline
English
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers simply to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot. In fact, the term is no longer found in print by the end of the 19th century, but it soon resurfaces in writing in 1917 as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?d?la?n/
Noun
deadline (plural deadlines)
- A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
- (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
- (archaic) A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
Derived terms
- deadliner
- deadline fighter
- postdeadline
Translations
Verb
deadline (third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined)
- (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
References
Anagrams
- denailed
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?t.l?i?n/, /?d?d.l?i?n/
- Hyphenation: dead?line
Noun
deadline m (plural deadlines, diminutive deadlinetje n)
- deadline.
- Synonym: termijn
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dedl?i?n/, [?de?dl?i?n]
Noun
deadline
- (colloquial) deadline
Declension
The declension of this word is problematic. Joukahainen recommends the nalle-type declension, presumably based on the (English) spelling of the nominative of the word:
On the other hand, the nalle-type declension does not fit the pronunciation, which in fact follows the risti-type declension (except in the nominative: /dedlain/), in other words, /dedlainin/, /dedlainia/, etc. in the genitive, partitive, etc. It's probably advisable to avoid using this word in writing and to use Finnish synonyms instead.
Synonyms
- kalmanviiva (colloquial)
- kuolemanlinja (colloquial)
- kuolonlinja (colloquial)
- määräaika
- takaraja
Further reading
- deadline in Kielitoimiston sanakirja
Polish
Etymology
From English deadline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?.dlajn/
Noun
deadline m inan
- (informal) deadline (date on or before which something must be completed)
Declension
Further reading
- deadline in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- deadline in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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