Hurry vs Delay - What's the difference?
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Rushed action.
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Urgency.
(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
(label) To do things quickly.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.
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(label) To cause to be done quickly.
(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They hurried him aboard a bark.
(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.
To put off until a later time; to defer.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 48
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
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, 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)
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
* Bible, Acts xxv. 17
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
As nouns the difference between hurry and delay
is that hurry is rushed action while delay is a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.As verbs the difference between hurry and delay
is that hurry is (label) to do things quickly while delay is to put off until a later time; to defer or delay can be (obsolete) to dilute, temper.hurry
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Noun
Derived terms
* in a hurryVerb
(en-verb)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* haste * hurry up * di di mau 1000 English basic wordsdelay
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(wikipedia delay)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at let (to hinder), late, leave.Verb
(en verb)- My lord delayeth his coming.
- The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* See also * adjourn * defer * forslow * postpone * put off * put on ice * suspendNoun
(en noun)- the delay before the echo of a sound
- Without any delay , on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
- The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].