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Delay vs Pushback - What's the difference?

delay | pushback |

As nouns the difference between delay and pushback

is that delay is a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity while pushback is the act of repelling (an enemy, etc).

As a verb delay

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

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.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed , and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • (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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    pushback

    English

    Alternative forms

    * push back * push-back

    Noun

  • The act of repelling (an enemy, etc).
  • A procedure in which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from the gate by some external force, usually a special tractor.
  • Criticism of or resistance to a proposal, stance, or event.
  • *19 December 2014 , Paul M Farber in (The Guardian) Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next
  • *:We’ve seen that before, too: civil rights era sit-ins and freedom rides with multiracial participants drew the fierce ire of authorities alike, but black protesters were far more likely to be targeted with harsh jail sentences and violent pushback .
  • * March 01 2006 , Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor , headline of an article
    • More pushback from Hill on eavesdropping
  • * Sept 28 2006 , op-ed article on Bill Clinton, Washington Post:
    • Moreover, when Democrats, notably former House minority leader Richard Gephardt, finally put their heads up in the late spring of 2002 to ask questions about that Aug. 6, 2001, memo warning of the possibility of terrorist attacks, the Republican pushback was furious.
  • (rare, nonstandard) Backlash of any sort.