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Waiting   /wˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Waiting

noun
1.
The act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something).  Synonym: wait.
adjective
1.
Being and remaining ready and available for use.  Synonym: ready and waiting.  "Found her mother waiting for them" , "An impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests" , "Military forces ready and waiting"


Wait

verb
(past & past part. waited; pres. part. waiting)
1.
Stay in one place and anticipate or expect something.
2.
Wait before acting.  Synonyms: hold back, hold off.
3.
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.  Synonyms: await, expect, look.  "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"
4.
Serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.  Synonym: waitress.



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"Waiting" Quotes from Famous Books



... late in the evening, but awaited further orders with great anxiety. At 11.45, however, came the order dated at 7.15, reiterating the direction to withdraw. Moore's brigade had gone under the first order, Henderson's was waiting ready to march, and I started it for Town Creek. [Footnote: Id., p. 524.] Reilly's (Colonel Sterl in command) began to follow. The march in a dark night made it proper to leave reasonable intervals between the brigades, and I was still waiting with Casement's ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... the bravest heart, and for a few minutes Gray clung to the roots of the tree beside him, feeling sick and giddy, and as if some reptile was only waiting for his next movement ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... admire your patience in waiting for an order to treat such a rogue as he deserves, when he treats ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... to-day, why that was nothing new: for he was always grave and silent. If the banker's manner was stern and moody to-day, that stern moodiness was habitual to him: and there was no need to blame the murky heavens for any change in his temper. He sat by the broad fireplace watching the burning coals, and waiting until he should be summoned to take his place by his daughter's side in the carriage that was to convey them both to Lisford church; and he did not utter one word of ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... discussion of them ensued which lasted the best part of half an hour. Ben described some of the pictures as well as he was able, and told of how they were packed, and of how they had been placed in the Basswood safe, waiting for the critics that Mr. Wadsworth had promised to bring from the city to his home to ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer


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