What's the difference between delay and forbear?

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).

Forbear


Definition:

  • (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
  • (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
  • (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
  • (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
  • (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
  • (v. t.) To cease from bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
  • (2) The Moody's report's key conclusion was relatively positive – it predicted that a combination of "lender forbearance and manageable affordability" would help older borrowers manage to avoid repossession.
  • (3) The cliff-side Mussenden Temple is a folly that was modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Rome and built for the Earl Bishop of Derry (one of Lord Bristol’s eccentric forbears), in 1785.
  • (4) Lucan was born in London to an Anglo-Irish peer, and counted among his forbears the 3rd Earl of Lucan, commander of the British cavalry who, acting on Lord Raglan’s orders, ordered Cardigan to lead the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade .
  • (5) The shows also captured a quality for which Ali is not often celebrated: that of quiet forbearance.
  • (6) Skeletal analysis of oldest human forbears around 3 million years ago reveal many anatomical similarities to African Great Apes.
  • (7) This new generation was no less Welsh than their forbears, but they regarded their Welshness in a different light.
  • (8) This is a crowded island that we live in and we must exercise a degree surely of tolerance and forbearance.
  • (9) • A time for trust and forbearance among the Greens.
  • (10) On the other, prices may drift towards a cap, which could lead to prices increasing or lead to a significant reduction in lenders exercising forbearance."
  • (11) The government has also urged lenders to show forbearance to mortgage customers who are struggling to make their monthly payments.
  • (12) That approach encourages greater truthfulness and forbearance – Miliband, for instance, was allowed to apologise for the Labour government's failures of supervision at Stafford without the Tory benches turning into a lynch mob against him.
  • (13) Opening her speech in Irish with "A Úachtaráin agus a chairde [president and friends]", the Queen spoke of the importance of forbearance and conciliation, "of being able to bow to the past but not to be bound by it", and of the many who have suffered the painful legacy of loss.
  • (14) This condition is difficult to recognize: the diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome may be obscured by normal hormonal modifications of the pregnant state; it also forbears particular severity because of maternal and foetal complications, the unusual prevalence of malignant tumours and the particular difficulty in curing or merely controlling the hypercorticism.
  • (15) Besides, the communist party had taught her to observe a certain nobility in suffering; a forbearance under siege.
  • (16) An impaired financial sector that is extending forbearance to low productivity firms while being more risk averse in funding new projects seems to be reducing firm entry and exit."
  • (17) However, this report makes it clear that not all lenders are showing forbearance and that additional protection is needed if we are to avoid a repeat of the repossessions crisis of the early 1990s."
  • (18) "Contacts have suggested that bank forbearance has played a role, with banks rolling over debt as long as companies are meeting servicing costs.
  • (19) Steve Mason Hornchurch, Essex • The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines “tolerate” as “endure (someone or something unpleasant) with forbearance”.
  • (20) Although the government and regulator the Financial Services Authority have urged lenders to practise forbearance where borrowers are struggling to meet monthly mortgage payments, Alliance & Leicester has refused to reconsider Copeland's case.