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What (who) is Delay - definition
Delay (audio effect)
![An [[Ibanez]] DE-7 delay pedal](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ibanez de7.jpg?width=200 "An [[Ibanez]] DE-7 delay pedal")
![The tape mechanism of a [[Roland RE-201]] delay unit](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RE201 Transport.JPG?width=200 "The tape mechanism of a [[Roland RE-201]] delay unit")
AUDIO EFFECT REMINISCENT OF AN ECHO
Tape delay (audio effect); Echo machine; Analog delay; Doubling echo; Slapback echo; Delay (electric guitar); Delay pedal; Delay unit; Delay Pedal; Straight delay; Delay effect; Tape echo; Delay (audio); Ecco-Fonic; Delay (recording); Delay (music); Delay-line (audio); Delay-line (music); Delay-line (recording); Delay line (audio); Delay line (music); Delay line (recording); Tape-echo; Tape Echo; Multitap delay; Haas delay; Slapback
Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the original audio is heard followed by the delayed audio.
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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Time delay; DeLay; Delayed; Delay (disambiguation); Time lag; Delaying; Delay (game)
(delays, delaying, delayed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
For sentimental reasons I wanted to delay my departure until June...
So don't delay, write in now for your chance of a free gift.
= postpone
VERB: V n/-ing, V
2.
To delay someone or something means to make them late or to slow them down.
Can you delay him in some way?...
The passengers were delayed for an hour.
= hold up
VERB: V n, V n
3.
If you delay, you deliberately take longer than necessary to do something.
If he delayed any longer, the sun would be up.
VERB: V
4.
If there is a delay, something does not happen until later than planned or expected.
Although the tests have caused some delay, flights should be back to normal this morning.
= hold-up
N-VAR
5.
Delay is a failure to do something immediately or in the required or usual time.
We'll send you a quote without delay.
N-UNCOUNT
delay
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Time delay; DeLay; Delayed; Delay (disambiguation); Time lag; Delaying; Delay (game)
¦ verb
1. become or cause to become late or slow.
2. postpone or defer.
¦ noun a period of time by which something is late or postponed.
Derivatives
delayer noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. delayer (v.).
Examples of use of Delay
1. "Criminal defendants often do that _ they want to delay and delay and delay," Manning said.
2. There has been delay and delay and you get very despondent.
3. Delay anger The new delay has angered the Turkish public and politicians.
4. "Denver is closed and Chicago is delay, delay, delay," said airport volunteer Jeri Friedman, who was busy directing weary travelers to quiet corners to ease their pain.
5. "If we have to delay (the trip), we‘ll delay," Bush said.