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Belate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To retard or make too late.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
  • (2) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
  • (3) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
  • (4) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (5) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
  • (6) Penicillin therapy may fail in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes or belated treatment with complications.
  • (7) Belatedly there is a recognition in Washington of the strains inside the EU caused by the migration crisis.
  • (8) As of late Tuesday, the White House and the intelligence agencies, all belated supporters of the USA Freedom Act, did not respond to questions about whether they will seek legislation in the next Congress to divest the NSA of its domestic phone records database.
  • (9) The occasion will be a belated recognition of World Autism Week (which ended on 8 April).
  • (10) It joined belatedly, and purely for economic reasons.
  • (11) News International's internal investigating group, the management and standards committee, belatedly turned over the emails to a parliamentary committee of which Watson was a member.
  • (12) Israel itself was brought into being partly as a belated and guilty attempt by the world community to help compensate for its complicity in, or at least its inability to prevent, the catastrophic crime of the Holocaust.
  • (13) Explaining the belated discovery of the FCO-witheld files, Foreign Office minister Lord Howell told parliament his department had "decided to regularise the position of some 2,000 boxes of files it currently holds, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, which were created by former British administrations overseas.
  • (14) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
  • (15) Bournemouth 0-1 Aston Villa | Premier League match report Read more More chances were created in the second half and ultimately the final scoreline was only as close as it was because Sunderland showed some belated fight and the hosts switched off defensively.
  • (16) Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has belatedly awakened the general surgical community to the concept of closed abdominal surgery.
  • (17) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.
  • (18) And then some suicidal defending almost allows Portland an opening goal, as a ricochet into the box is greeted by Hurtado and Gspurning both leaving it for each other before the keeper belatedly dives for it.
  • (19) Arab regional governments – and even Iran – have belatedly seen their own storm clouds of extremism, but there is tremendous work required to undo what has been done.
  • (20) A belated convert to the English captaincy cult, Capello decided to put the matter to bed after watching the Denmark game and forming the conclusion that England needed strong leadership during games.

Delay


Definition:

  • (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
  • (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
  • (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
  • (n.) To allay; to temper.
  • (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (2) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (3) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
  • (4) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
  • (5) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
  • (6) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (7) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
  • (8) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
  • (9) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (11) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
  • (12) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (13) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
  • (14) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
  • (15) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
  • (16) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
  • (17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
  • (18) The Tc-99m DISIDA cholescintigraphy demonstrated both early and delayed nonvisualization of the gallbladder.
  • (19) Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease that may be considered to be a human model for the delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction.
  • (20) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).

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