Arrest vs Delay - What's the difference?

Arrest is a related term of delay.

As nouns the difference between arrest and delay

is that arrest is arrest, confinement, detention while delay is a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

As a verb delay is

to put off until a later time; to defer or delay can be (obsolete) to dilute, temper.

arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A check, stop, an act or instance of something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

A device to physically arrest motion.

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

* Jeremy Taylor

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

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Derived terms

* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

* Philips

Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .

(obsolete) To stay, remain.

(Spenser)

To stop (a process, course etc.).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:

To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

* Shakespeare

I arrest thee of high treason.

To catch the attention of.

* 1919 : :

There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

Derived terms

* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

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delay

English

(wikipedia delay)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

Verb

(en verb)

To put off until a later time; to defer.

* Bible, (w) xxiv. 48

My lord delayeth his coming.

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.

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(label) To allay; to temper.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The watery showers delay the raging wind.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

Synonyms

* See also * adjourn * defer * forslow * postpone * put off * put on ice * suspend

Noun

(en noun)

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

the delay before the echo of a sound

* Bible, Acts xxv. 17

Without any delay , on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.

* Macaulay

The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To dilute, temper.

(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:

Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].

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