Definition of Delay

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Definition of Delay

Delay

A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.

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.

To allay; to temper.

To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

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Delay Quotations

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
Barney Frank

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
Jack Kevorkian

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

Delay Translations

delay in Afrikaans is vertraging
delay in Dutch is vertraging
delay in Italian is tardare, spostare, ritardo, ritardo
delay in Latin is cesso, duco, cunctatio, prodico, mora
delay in Norwegian is forsinke, utsette, utsettelse, forsinkelse
delay in Portuguese is atraso
delay in Spanish is retrasar, demorar, retraso, aplzar, dilatoria

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