Postpone vs Delate - What's the difference?
postpone | delate |
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
*, chapter=7
, title= 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 postpone and delate
is that postpone is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc while delate is to carry; to convey or delate can be .postpone
English
Verb
(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* adjourn, defer, delay, forestay, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspendAntonyms
* advance * hasten * prepone (India )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)