A surname.

plural of Dela

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. / (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

(transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer. / To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. / (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.

(obsolete) To dilute, temper. / (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

A river in the northeastern United States, running from the Catskills into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.

A member of the Lenape / Delaware people. / An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.

(transitive) To cause (something assembled by lamination) to come apart into the layers that make it up. / (intransitive) To come apart into its component layers.

(telecommunications) The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.

The interruption of an outdoor event because of rain, with the expectation that it would continue later.