To delay or postpone (an event).
To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.
The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
A brief interval of rest or relief.
A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
To delay (a computation).
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
A delayed computation.
Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.