Delay vs. Extension — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delay and Extension
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Delay
Make (someone or something) late or slow
The train was delayed
Extension
The act of extending or the condition of being extended
The extension of the subway into the suburbs.
Delay
A period of time by which something is late or postponed
A two-hour delay
Long delays in obtaining passports
Extension
The amount, degree, or range to which something extends or can extend
The wire has an extension of 50 feet.
Delay
To postpone until a later time; defer.
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Extension
The act of straightening or extending a limb.
Delay
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired
Heavy traffic delayed us.
Extension
The position assumed by an extended limb.
Delay
To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
Extension
A length of human or synthetic hair attached to the scalp or to strands of hair close to the scalp to add volume, length, or color.
Delay
The act of delaying; postponement
Responded without delay.
Extension
(Medicine) The application of traction to a fractured or dislocated limb to restore the normal position.
Delay
The condition of being delayed; detainment.
Extension
An addition that increases the area, influence, operation, or contents of something
An extension for the vacuum cleaner.
Built a new extension onto the hospital wing.
Delay
The period of time during which one is delayed.
Extension
An additional telephone connected to a main line.
Delay
The interval of time between two events.
Extension
An allowance of extra time, as for the repayment of a debt.
Delay
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
The delay before the echo of a sound
Extension
The period of this extra time
Three months' extension on the loan.
Delay
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
Extension
The property of an object by which it occupies space.
Delay
Synonym of promise
Extension
A program in a university, college, or school offering academic instruction to nontraditional students, such as working adults, who cannot attend classes at the usual place and time.
Delay
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
Extension
A publicly funded program offering such instruction along with information on agriculture, home economics, and business.
Delay
(ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
Extension
(Computers) A set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file
In most operating systems, filenames having the extension .EXE are executable files.
Delay
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Extension
(Logic) The class of objects designated by a specific term or concept; denotation.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
Extension
(Mathematics) A set that includes a given and similar set as a subset.
Delay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
Extension
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase
Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task.
Delay
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
Extension
The state of being extended
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.
Extension
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
Delay
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
My lord delayeth his coming.
Extension
A part of a building that has been extended from the original
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.
Extension
(semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Extension
Semantic widening, broadening of meaning
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.
Extension
A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
Delay
Time during which some action is awaited;
Instant replay caused too long a delay
He ordered a hold in the action
Extension
(medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
Delay
The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
Extension
(weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
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
Extension
(fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
Delay
Act later than planned, scheduled, or required;
Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered
Extension
(telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
Delay
Stop or halt;
Please stay the bloodshed!
Extension
(computing) A file extension.
Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
Delay
Slow the growth or development of;
The brain damage will retard the child's language development
Extension
(computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
A browser extension
Extension
(logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
Extension
(grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
Extension
(education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
Extension
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Extension
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
Extension
Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; - correlative of intension.
The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects.
Extension
The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
Extension
The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
Extension
A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
Extension
A mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt;
They applied for an extension of the loan
Extension
Act of expanding in scope; making more widely available;
Extension of the program to all in need
Extension
The spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
Extension
An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students
Extension
Act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
Extension
A string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename;
Most applications provide extensions for the files they create
Most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS
Extension
The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;
The extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
Extension
The ability to raise the working leg high in the air;
The dancer was praised for her uncanny extension
Good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability
Extension
Amount or degree or range to which something extends;
The wire has an extension of 50 feet
Extension
An additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
Extension
An addition to the length of something
Extension
An addition that extends a main building
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