Time
Synonyms for delay
Synonyms for delay: wait and stay. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for delay
Interchangeable with delay in this sense
Audited under delay's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one delay carries in that sense.
- waitnoun, in the sense "time during which some action is awaited"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name delay as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- staystay is a verb in the sense "stop or halt"
one of these comes from delay's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
time during which some action is awaited
Instant replay caused too long a delay.
The true synonym
wait
Same sentence, swapped: Instant replay caused too long a wait.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for delay in the sentence quoted.
- relief
- blackout
- squeeze
Where delay turns up in the game
delay is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where delay is the trap
- rushverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hurry, in the sense "urge to an unnatural speed", with delay sitting one tile away.
- stayverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stick, in the sense "be in a certain place and not leave", and delay is one of the three tiles that lose.
- soilverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is dirty, in the sense "make soiled, filthy, or dirty", and delay is on the board beside it.
- interruptverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disrupt, in the sense "interfere in someone else's activity", and delay is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play delay
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delay reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from time at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. delay carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.