atraso — meaning in English

English meaning

• abode noun A place where someone lives; a home or dwelling.
• delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
• lag verb To fall behind or fail to keep pace with something else.

Senses

atraso is used for these senses in English:

• abode (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17th century.]
• delay A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• lag A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

delay — full definition

1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.

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