delay vs sit out

delay

verb
  • To put off until a later time; to defer. 

  • To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. 

noun
  • A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. 

  • An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. 

  • Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”) 

  • An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment. 

sit out

verb
  • To await the cessation of, without taking part. 

  • To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. 

  • To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails. 

  • To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position. 

  • To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act. 

How often have the words delay and sit out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )