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▸ noun:  A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
▸ noun:  (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
▸ noun:  (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
▸ noun:  (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
▸ verb:  To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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