(v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
(v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
(v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents of Cardiff , Cumbria and Plymouth are either dallying with the idea or actively pursuing it.
(2) Of 257 named characters, only a handful dare shoot up an ironic eyebrow, fewer dally in high camp.
(3) Indirect hemagglutination tests on sera from 251 Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) from interior Alaska collected during the period 1979 to 1987 revealed no evidence of exposure to Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.
(4) Yes, she dallied with cocaine but she wouldn’t again.
(5) Now, however, all four Burgess boys are big news Down Under, where they have teamed up at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and George became the first Briton ever to be named Rookie of the Year at the National Rugby League's Dally M awards night, only a few hours after McNamara had confirmed that he, Sam and Tom will be flying to South Africa this week to join England's high-altitude World Cup training camp in Potchefstroom.
(6) Only once did this concern the visiting defence – when Zabaleta dallied in the area but a cool touch allowed him and Kompany to clear the danger.
(7) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
(8) Both sides were exhibiting a wastefulness in the final third as Mark Davies dragged wide after a promising foray and Roger Espinoza dallied when bearing down on goal.
(9) In a typically water animal (Phocaenoides dalli) the cervical thickening is expressed feebly, the lumbar one is absent, the epidural space is developed better than in terrestrial and semiwater animals.
(10) Rats were given dally injections of nicotine in the same environment.
(11) Dalli, in a videoed interview with a Brussels political paper, said the investigators' report "stated there was no proof at all that I was involved in any misdeed" and that no decision of the commission had been jeopardised.
(12) Dodd toyed and dallied in the telling, knowing his audience couldn't know where the joke was going and then warning them, just before the punchline: "You don't deserve this."
(13) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
(14) The commissioner John Dalli has revealed that he was forced to resign by the European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, following an investigation by the EU anti-fraud office Olaf into a complaint by a Swedish tobacco company.
(15) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
(16) I became negative and didn’t feel like myself.” It is no secret that the Dutchman, like Congerton, had become dismayed by Short’s reluctance to follow his advice and invest significant sums in root and branch reform of a squad which has spent the past few seasons dallying with relegation.
(17) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
(18) We noted frequency of body-image disturbance (BID) and dismorphophobias (DPP) in 97 girls and 8 boys among 107 girls and 8 boys with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), seen since 1973 and coming up semiologic criterions of Laboucarie and Dally & Sargant.
(19) He turned to psychoanalysis, David Astor's favoured remedy, and ended up with a psychiatrist, probably the late Peter Dally, who first injected him with methadrine and then – this was the 60s – offered LSD, which was still legal.
(20) The prevalences of three helminths, Campula oblonga, Halocercus dalli and Crassicauda sp., recovered from Dall's porpoises which were net-entrapped incidentally in the vicinity of the Western Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific are reported.
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).