waiting
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waiting
- 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)
- 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.
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waiting (countable and uncountable; plural waitings)
- (obsolete) Watching.
- The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
- 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.
- 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
- Attendance, service.
- 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.
- Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
- 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.
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Watching
The act of staying or remaining in expectation
[edit] References
- waiting in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Most common English words before 1923: command · etc. · broke · #772: waiting · political · reading · German
