delay: [13] English acquired delay from Old French delaier, a compound verb formed from the prefix de- ‘off’ and laier ‘leave’. This verb, which also crops up in English relay, appears to have been a variant of laissier (source of English lease), which came from Latin laxāre ‘slacken, undo’. This in turn was derived from the adjective laxus ‘loose’. => lax, lease, relay
delay (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French delaiier, from de- "away, from" (see de-) + laier "leave, let," probably a variant of Old French laissier, from Latin laxare "slacken, undo" (see lax). Related: Delayed; delaying.
delay (n.)
mid-13c., from Old French delaie, from delaiier (see delay (v.)).
例文
1. How much delay should we build into the plan?
私たちはこの計画のためにどのくらい余裕を持っておくべきですか?
2.The time delay would be smaller by eight orders of magnitude.
8桁では、遅延量は小さく見えます。/
3.He hates delay and procrastination in all its forms.
彼はどんな形の遅延や遅延も嫌っている。/
4.A host of problems may delay the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
イギリス海峡トンネルの開通を遅らせる可能性がある問題の大きなかご。
5.The laws led to confusion,muddle and years of delay .