Belay vs. Delay — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Belay and Delay
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Belay
(Nautical) To secure or make fast (a rope, for example) by winding on a cleat or pin.
Delay
Make (someone or something) late or slow
The train was delayed
Belay
To provide security to (a climber) by paying out or drawing in rope, often through a braking device, in readiness to break a potential fall.
Delay
A period of time by which something is late or postponed
A two-hour delay
Long delays in obtaining passports
Belay
To cause to stop.
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Delay
To postpone until a later time; defer.
Belay
To be made secure.
Delay
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired
Heavy traffic delayed us.
Belay
Used in the imperative as an order to stop
Belay there!.
Delay
To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
Belay
The act of belaying a climber.
Delay
The act of delaying; postponement
Responded without delay.
Belay
A system of ropes and anchors by which a climber is belayed.
Delay
The condition of being delayed; detainment.
Belay
To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
Delay
The period of time during which one is delayed.
Belay
To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
Delay
The interval of time between two events.
Belay
(transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.
Belay that order!
Delay
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
The delay before the echo of a sound
Belay
The general command to stop or cease.
Delay
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
Belay
To surround; environ; enclose.
Delay
Synonym of promise
Belay
To overlay; adorn.
Delay
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
Belay
To besiege; invest; surround.
Delay
(ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
Belay
To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
Delay
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Belay
(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
Belay
(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
Delay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
Belay
(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
Delay
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
Belay
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace.
Delay
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
Belay
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
Delay
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
My lord delayeth his coming.
Belay
To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
Delay
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.
Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayedThe huddling brook to hear his madrigal.
Belay
Something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
Delay
To allay; to temper.
The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Belay
Turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him
Delay
To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.
Belay
Fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat
Delay
Time during which some action is awaited;
Instant replay caused too long a delay
He ordered a hold in the action
Delay
The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
Delay
Cause to be slowed down or delayed;
Traffic was delayed by the bad weather
She delayed the work that she didn't want to perform
Delay
Act later than planned, scheduled, or required;
Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered
Delay
Stop or halt;
Please stay the bloodshed!
Delay
Slow the growth or development of;
The brain damage will retard the child's language development
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