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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. delay: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. delay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. delay: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. delay: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Delay: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. delay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. delay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. delay: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Delay, delay: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. delay: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. delay: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. delay: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. DeLay, Delay (audio effect), Delay (disambiguation), Delay (electric guitar), Delay (programming): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Delay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. delay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. delay: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. delay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. delay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. delay: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. delay: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. delay: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. Delay, delay: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. delay: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  24. delay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DELAY: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  2. DELAY: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  3. delay: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delay: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  2. Delay: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. DELAY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  4. Delay (disambiguation), delay: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  5. delay: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Delay: Game Dictionary [home, info]
  2. delay: I T Glossary [home, info]
  3. delay: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. delay: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. delay: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  3. delay: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DELAY: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Delay: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. delay: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]
  2. delay: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  3. Delay: Explosives [home, info]
  4. Delay: Glossary of video terms [home, info]
  5. delay: Rane Professional Audio Reference [home, info]
  6. Delay: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

Quick definitions (delay)

noun:  the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
noun:  time during which some action is awaited ("Instant replay caused too long a delay")
verb:  act later than planned, scheduled, or required ("Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered")
verb:  cause to be slowed down or delayed ("Traffic was delayed by the bad weather")
verb:  slow the growth or development of
verb:  stop or halt
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #10104)

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Phrases that include delay:   acoustic delay line, time delay, electromagnetic delay line, propagation delay, developmental delay, more...

Words similar to delay:   holdup, delayed, delayer, delaying, detain, detention, hold, postponement, stay, wait, dawdle, dwell on, hangfire, hold up, linger over, mora, procrastinate, retard, time lag, more...


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