Delay vs. Duration — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delay and Duration
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Delay
Make (someone or something) late or slow
The train was delayed
Duration
Continuance or persistence in time.
Delay
A period of time by which something is late or postponed
A two-hour delay
Long delays in obtaining passports
Duration
A period of existence or persistence
Sat quietly through the duration of the speech.
Delay
To postpone until a later time; defer.
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Duration
The number of years required to receive the present value of future payments, both of interest and principle, of a bond, often used as an indicator of a bond's price volatility resulting from changes in interest rates.
Delay
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired
Heavy traffic delayed us.
Duration
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
Delay
To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
Duration
(in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
Rationing will last at least for the duration.
Delay
The act of delaying; postponement
Responded without delay.
Duration
(finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
Delay
The condition of being delayed; detainment.
Duration
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration.
Delay
The period of time during which one is delayed.
Duration
The period of time during which something continues
Delay
The interval of time between two events.
Duration
The property of enduring or continuing in time
Delay
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
The delay before the echo of a sound
Duration
Continuance in time;
The ceremony was of short duration
He complained about the length of time required
Delay
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
Delay
Synonym of promise
Delay
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
Delay
(ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
Delay
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
Delay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
Delay
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
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.
Delay
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
My lord delayeth his coming.
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.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
The watery showers delay the raging wind.
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.
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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