"delay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delay verbo

delay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 81
delay action • delay one's departure • delay construction • delay one's plans • delay the release • delay the start • delay a decision • ...
verbo + delay
Kolokacji: 15
want to delay • try to delay • decide to delay • keep delaying • consider delaying • ...
delay + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
delayed until • delay by • delayed for • delayed after • delayed in • ...
delay + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 38
further delay • delay no longer • delayed indefinitely • repeatedly delayed • significantly delayed • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
1. further delay = dalsze opóźnienie further delay
3. delayed indefinitely = opóźniony na czas nieokreślony delayed indefinitely
5. delayed twice = opóźniony dwa razy delayed twice
8. greatly delayed = znacznie opóźnić greatly delayed
  • Its implementation has already been greatly delayed in any case.
  • There is nothing that can prevent, or even greatly delay it now.
  • However, it was a year before the funds were made available, greatly delaying development.
  • Although greatly delayed, the resulting systems operated for about 20 years, into the 1980s.
  • Reconstruction was greatly delayed by economic sanctions and lack of international aid.
  • The cure for poliomyelitis will be greatly delayed, perhaps by years.
  • But though every step was familiar, increasing darkness and the heavy mist greatly delayed him.
  • "If we were not too greatly delayed by the trucks, we could make it in two days," he decided finally.
  • Sparing use of the precious drugs would have greatly delayed resistance.
  • Its construction, commenced in 1642, was greatly delayed by the events of the Deluge.
9. later delayed = później opóźnić later delayed
10. initially delayed = początkowo opóźnić initially delayed
11. briefly delayed = pokrótce opóźnić briefly delayed
12. frequently delayed = często opóźniać frequently delayed
13. successfully delay = z powodzeniem opóźnienie successfully delay
14. actually delay = faktycznie opóźnienie actually delay
15. momentarily delayed = przez moment opóźnić momentarily delayed
16. unavoidably delayed = nieuniknienie opóźniony unavoidably delayed
17. routinely delayed = rutynowo opóźnić routinely delayed
(2) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
(4) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(5) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(6) due, unduly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
(10) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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