Defer vs Delate - What's the difference?
defer | delate |
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
* Shakespeare
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to delay, to wait
* Milton
(American football) to choose to kick off after winning the opening coin toss.
(legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
* Francis Bacon
* 1899 ,
to render, to offer
* Brevint
To carry; to convey.
* Francis Bacon
To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
* Jeremy Taylor
To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
* Bishop Burnet
To carry on; to conduct.
As verbs the difference between defer and delate
is that defer is to delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service or defer can be (legal) to submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority while delate is to carry; to convey or delate can be .defer
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) differer, from (etyl) .Verb
(deferr)- Defer the spoil of the city until night.
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- God will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name.
Derived terms
* deferralEtymology 2
* From (etyl)Verb
(deferr)- Hereupon the commissioners deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
- "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
- worship deferred to the Virgin
Derived terms
* deferenceAnagrams
* * ----delate
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(delat)- Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated .
- when the crime is delated or notorious
- As men were delated , they were marked down for such a fine.
- (Warner)