Waiting

[wait·ing]

The act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)

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a. & n. from Wait, v.

Noun
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him"

Adjective S.
being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wait


a. & n. from Wait, v.


Waiting

Wait"ing, a. & n. from Wait, v. In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. [Eng.] -- Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank. -- Waiting maid, Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant.

a. & n. from Wait, v.

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Usage Examples

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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