hang up
hold off
suspendable
deep freeze
hinder
pendence
retardation
forestay
fristing
on hold
delayable
delayer
procrastinate
suspense
stay
suspendability
intermission
defer
wait
tarpit
hang
underhang
put off
suspensively
on ice
suspensory
cunctatious
r-tard
restrain
abey
linger over
pause
retard
set back
restive
catch
holdup
dretch
delay
dwell on
trap
pin
immobilize
adjourn
push off
suspension
shift off
immobilise
tie up
a rolling stone gathers no moss
forbear
dally
stand-down
protraction
standdown
respite
stall
inhibited
hove
slowball
abeyance
dwell
overhang
adjourned
hold
waiting game
deferred
beetle
presuspension
relent
restrained
timekeep
shelved
cunctator
cunctatorship
postpone
poise
stall for time
cold storage
dilatory
hold over
dangling
protract
delayability
cunctative
pensile
straight
play for time
call off
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delayable
suspensory
cunctatious
restive
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presuspension
restrained
shelved
dilatory
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cunctative
pensile
suspensively
straight
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fristing
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cunctatorship
cold storage
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hang up
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defer
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tarpit
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underhang
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linger over
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retard
set back
catch
dretch
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trap
pin
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adjourn
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tie up
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noun
- The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
- The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
- A deadline.
- the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
- A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
verb
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adv
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
verb
- To delay or postpone
- To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- to postpone induction into military service.
- After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- To delay, to wait.
verb
- be suspended or hanging
- be suspended or poised
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- kill by hanging
- let drop or droop
- fall or flow in a certain way
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- be exhibited
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
noun
prep_phrase
- Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended; on hold.
- Of a sporting or other contest: in a state of assured victory for the leading contestant.
- Of an entertainment normally performed on a stage: performed by ice skaters as an ice show.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, ice.
noun
verb
verb
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- place in a confining or embarrassing position
- catch in or as if in a trap
- hold or catch as if in a trap
- to sell marijuana on a street corner
noun
- a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
- a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
- the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
- informal terms for the mouth
- a light two-wheeled carriage
- a hazard on a golf course
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- attach or fasten with pins
- pierce with a pin
- (chess) immobilize a piece
noun
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
noun
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
verb
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
- To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
noun
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
noun
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
verb
noun
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
- To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.
- To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
noun
- The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
- Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
- That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
- A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
- Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
- A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
- A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
adv
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
verb
adj
- Direct, undeviating.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Strait; narrow.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Heterosexual.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
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