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As nouns the difference between extension and delay

is that extension is the act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion 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.

extension

English

(wikipedia extension)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
  • (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2011-07-20 , author = Edwin Mares , title = Propositional Functions , site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function , accessdate = 2012-07-15}}
    In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.
  • (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
  • (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
  • (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
  • (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
  • (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
  • (computing) A file extension.
    • Files with the ''.txt'' extension usually contain text.
  • (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
    • a browser extension
  • (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.

    • Synonyms

    * (semantics) denotation

    Antonyms

    * (exercise) curl

    Derived terms

    * extensional * extension cord * hair extension * hyperextension * leg extension * triceps extension * file extension * metaphorical extension

    Related terms

    * extend * (semantics) intension * (semantics) comprehension

    See also

    * flexion

    Anagrams

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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.
  • *
    • , 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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