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Belay (verb)
To surround; environ; enclose.
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Belay (verb)
To overlay; adorn.
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Belay (verb)
To besiege; invest; surround.
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Belay (verb)
To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
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Belay (verb)
To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.
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Belay (verb)
To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.
“He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.”
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Belay (verb)
To lay aside; stop; cancel.
“I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.”
“Belay that order!”
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Belay (verb)
The general command to stop or cease.
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Belay (noun)
The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
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Belay (noun)
The object to which a rope is secured.
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Belay (noun)
A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
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Delay (noun)
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
“the delay before the echo of a sound”
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Delay (noun)
An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
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Delay (verb)
To put off until a later time; to defer.
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Delay (verb)
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
“The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.”
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Delay (verb)
To allay; to temper.
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Delay (verb)
To dilute, temper.
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Delay (verb)
To assuage, quench, allay.
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Delay (verb)
make (someone or something) late or slow
“the train was delayed”
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Delay (verb)
be late or slow; loiter
“time being of the essence, they delayed no longer”
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Delay (verb)
postpone or defer (an action)
“he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates”
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Delay (noun)
a period of time by which something is late or postponed
“a two-hour delay”
“long delays in obtaining passports”
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Delay (noun)
the action of delaying or being delayed
“I set off without delay”
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Delay (noun)
the time interval between the propagation of an electrical signal and its reception.
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Delay (noun)
an electronic device which introduces a delay, especially in an audio signal.