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delayed 音标拼音: [dɪl'ed] a. 延时的;迟发的 延时的;迟发的 delayed延迟 delayed adj 1: not as far along as normal in developmentDelay \ De* lay"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Delaying}.] [ OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d[' e] lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See { Delay}, n., and cf. { Delate}, 1st { Defer}, { Dilate}.] 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. [ 1913 Webster] My lord delayeth his coming. -- Matt. xxiv. 48. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To allay; to temper. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The watery showers delay the raging wind. -- Surrey. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " delayed": arrested, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blocked, checked, delayed- action, detained, held up, hung up, impeded, in a bind, in abeyance, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstructed, overdue, retarded, set back, slow, slowed down, stopped, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely
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