demora — meaning in English
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English meaning
- 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.
- subterfuge noun A trick or deceptive scheme used to avoid something or achieve a hidden goal.
Senses
demora is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
- subterfuge (countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.
delay — full definition
- noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
- verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.
lag — full definition
- verb To fall behind or fail to keep pace with something else.
- noun A delay between one event and another, especially in a signal, response, or process.