Delay is valid Scrabble Word

Is delay a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is delay valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for DELAY in dictionary:

VERB:

to put off to a later time
make (someone or something) late or slow
be late or slow; loiter
postpone or defer (an action)
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
cause to be slowed down or delayed
act later than planned, scheduled, or required
stop or halt
slow the growth or development of

put off to a later time

NOUN:

a period of time by which something is late or postponed
the action of delaying or being delayed
the time interval between the propagation of an electrical signal and its reception.
an electronic device which introduces a delay, especially in an audio signal.
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.
time during which some action is awaited
the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
act of delaying

Words related to DELAY

delayable15 delayed12 delayer11 delayers12 delaying13 delayingly18 delays10 tarriance11

Words that contain DELAY

delays10 delayed12 delayer11 delayers12 delaying13 gondelay13 delayable15 gondelays14 roundelay13 undelayed14 delayering15 delayingly18 roundelays14 undelaying15 delayerings16

How to use DELAY in a sentence

The faculty say that a large number of lives have been lost, in many seasons, solely from delay in seeking medical assistance.
I will, therefore, delay no longer to give an account of myself, and wish I could relate what would please either myself or my friend.
He rang the bell, which was answered with the briefest delay by a sleepy-looking clerk, who had been taking shorthand notes for Mr.
All whose business or pursuits permitted it, prepared to leave London, which they regarded as a devoted city, without delay.
Hence away! No delay! There where glory may be sought.
The delay, the seemingly endless delay, made her even more impatient than it made him, as is always the case where the woman is really in love.
Any pause or delay after this, from weakness and exhaustion, would have been fatal, as the water would have risen above his head.
Nevertheless, he could not help chafing at delay nor longing for the time to come to submit the bid that had lain for a month upon his desk.
It was, moreover, they were certain, in some minds only a pretext for delay, as the event proved.
But Bob made a suggestion which changed this plan, and caused a delay that was attended with very serious consequences.

It was therefore determined to abandon the voyage, and to shape their course back to the Peak, with as little delay as possible.
The best thing to do in such a case is to adopt some abstract theory of action without delay, and put it into practice without hesitation.
The sultan was so heart-broken at the death of his only child, that he insisted on the prince quitting the kingdom without delay.
Tempers of Police and Patrol were not going to be improved by fighting their way around or over the obstacles the Traders had arranged to delay them.
At Karnal, twenty-four miles onward, and now nearing their goal, two causes of delay crossed their path.
The scene at his baptism had such an effect upon Mah Meulah, the female who has been before mentioned, that she too could no longer delay a public profession of faith in Christ.
Pending the delay which this contest consumed, another cabinet complication found its solution.
After the lapse of another three days, it was determined that there should be no further delay of the marriage, and one morning without pomp or parade of any kind, Mr.
It blew straight up the river toward the distant lumber camp, and early the next morning Will was astir to make sure there would be no delay.
But during this delay the Carthaginian party in Messana had obtained the ascendency, and Hanno, with a Carthaginian garrison, had been admitted into the citadel.
He begs me to write, intending to write to you himself without delay.
There had been some delay in procuring wood for the new rafters and the poor roofless, smoked-begrimed walls looked very forlorn.
Patterson realized his weakness, and tried in various ways to delay the game.
He was condemned to die, and his sentence was executed without delay.
Considerable delay was thus entailed in the final settlement.
The first part of the operation was attended with little delay.
When she came with the drops, after some delay, I was, to her surprise, able to sit up and look around me.
When that stage comes the flow of reinforcements might be suspended, but to stay or delay it before that stage has been reached is to court misfortune.

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