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delayed in English:

1. too late too late


It is never too late.
too late for changes

2. This train was delayed This train was delayed



3. instantaneous


an instantaneous response/reply/reaction
His reaction was instantaneous.
But with induction cooking the heat level is every bit as instantaneous—and as exact—as with gas, yet with none of the many drawbacks of gas (which we will detail later).
The effect would be instantaneous and painless. / In the real world you could meet someone you don't find attractive instantaneously and then get to know them and find that you do quite like them.

4. sailing


I started sailing last year.
Bad weather prevented them from sailing.
She was looking forward to going sailing with him.
I belong to the sailing club.
If it is fine tomorrow, I will go sailing with my friends.
Tom doesn't know much about sailing, does he?
Sailing a boat, his chief hobby, costs him most of his salary.
I would if I could, but I'm taking sailing lessons this week.
It seems, from books, that the colonizers and adventurers went sailing off to a new fine life, a new country, opportunities, and so forth.
Sailing a boat makes us happy.
I’d love to learn sailing. I’d have the freedom to travel around the world in my own boat.
Trust me. It'll be plain sailing.
I am engrossed in sailing.
On our holiday in Greece, we went sailing around the islands on a small boat.
I went sailing on a big lake near my house.

English word "delayed"(sailing) occurs in sets:

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