waiting

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/
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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ

[edit] Verb

waiting

1. Present participle of wait.

   Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive)

   Waiting for something to happen is part of the job. (gerund)

   They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as adjective)

[edit] Derived terms

• waiting room

[edit] Noun

waiting (countable and uncountable; plural waitings)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) Watching, hence, an ogling.
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
3. Attendance, service.

[edit] Quotations

• 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.

  Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

• 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.

  In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

• 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets

  There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.

[edit] Derived terms

• in waiting

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• waiting in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911