What's the difference between belated and belayed?
Belated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Belate
(a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
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.
Belayed
Definition:
() of Belay
Example Sentences:
(1) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(2) Girmay Belay, 40, its project coordinator, says: “Thirty years ago the people did not have access to food.
(3) Since these fragments cannot form alpha-helises, it is unlikely that upon binding of tachikinins to their receptors, their N-terminal fragments could overcome the hydrophobic barrier of the cell membrane's lipid belayer.
(4) "At a time when the African continent is struggling to ensure that there is accountability for serious human rights violations and abuses, it is impossible to justify this decision, which undermines the integrity of the African court of justice and human rights, even before it becomes operational," said the organisation's Africa director, Netsanet Belay.
(5) "I thought if I fell off on the last moves, … if the belayer [the person holding the rope at the bottom] sprinted away, that I might be all right.
(6) Amnesty International’s Africa research and advocacy director, Netsanet Belay, said “the true horror” of what had happened in Zaria over two days in December was only now coming to light.
(7) With extreme rope friction at the rock and running belays the forces can increase up to 6.5 kN.
(8) The abduction and brutalisation of young women and girls seems to be part of the modus operandi of Boko Haram,” said Netsanet Belay, Africa director at Amnesty International.
(9) These forces depend on the method of belay and the situation of the fall and are mostly independent from the weight of the climber.
(10) "The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram's impending raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only amplify the national and international outcry at this horrific crime," said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International's Africa director.
(11) Million Belay, the head of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , said the initiative could spell disaster for small farmers in Africa.
(12) Not only is justice a right of victims, accountability could serve as a powerful deterrent to those who think they can kill, rape and pillage with no consequence,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty’s Africa director for research and advocacy.
(13) The trauma suffered by the (abducted) women and girls is truly horrific,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa director for research and advocacy.
(14) Photographs and transparencies of the techniques used in belaying, combined with information gained from discussions amongst experienced climbers, provided evidence of the potential injury mechanisms which may be subjected to the belayer in having to arrest a falling climber, whilst moving towards the belayer.