WAIT
\wˈe͡ɪt], \wˈeɪt], \w_ˈeɪ_t]\
Definitions of WAIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
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wait before acting
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serve as a waiter in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"
By Princeton University
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time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
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wait before acting
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wait on tables; serve as a waiter; in restaurants"I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To watch; to observe; to take notice.
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To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
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To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
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To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
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To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
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The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
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Ambush.
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One who watches; a watchman.
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Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
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Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
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To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; - said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
By Oddity Software
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To watch; to observe; to take notice.
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To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
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To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
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To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
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To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
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The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
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Ambush.
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One who watches; a watchman.
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Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
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Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
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To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; - said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To linger or tarry; to remain; to stay in a condition of watching or expecting: with for; as, we waited for her for an hour; to attend or serve; as, to wait upon a table.
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To expect or tarry for; to delay; as, to wait dinner.
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The act of staying, or the length of time during which one stays, in expectation; delay.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To stay in expectation: to remain: to attend (with on): to follow: to lie in ambush.
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To stay for: to await.
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The act of waiting for something or somebody: as, after a long wait we were admitted: the act of waiting in concealment for the purpose of attacking; ambush; a kind of old night watchman: one of a band of musicians in the pay of a town corporation whose duties were at first to pipe or sound the hours and guard the streets, but subsequently to act merely as town's minstrels or musicians; "For as the custom prevails at present there is scarce a young man of any fashion in a corporation that does not make love with the town music; the waits often help him through his courtship."-Steele: at present, one of a band of musicians who promenade the streets during the night and early morning about Christmas or New-year time, performing music appropriate to the season: an old musical instrument of the hautboy or shawm kind; the name of the instrument may be from the waits, who chiefly performed on it.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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