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How to pronounce “delay”
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Pronunciation guide for delay
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of delay with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
because you can have someone delay puberty who actually
- Definition summary
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
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How to pronounce delay
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
because you can have someone delay puberty who actually
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “delay”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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”).
- (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
- [Verb]
- (transitive)
- (intransitive) To wait, hesitate, tarry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
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