cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
END
either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"
put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
a final state; "he c
STASIS
inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
Medical term for a stagnation in the normal flow of bodily fluids