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- To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by "wait for".)
The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.
- plural Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen
The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
- To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment
She used to wait down at the Dew Drop Inn.
- plural Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians
- An ambush
They laid in wait for the patrol.
- One who watches; a watchman
- To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness
Wait here until your car arrives.
- A delay
I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
- {v} to stay, attend, expect, watch
- {n} ambush
- serve as a waiter in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"
- If you say that something can wait, you mean that it is not important or urgent and so you will deal with it or do it later. I want to talk to you, but it can wait Any changes will have to wait until sponsors can be found
- condition of a process that has it in a state that a computation is not being performed The process should be waiting for some event that would allow the computation to continue The event occurrance is indicated by a signal
- (n ) A UNIX\256 command that waits for all background processes to complete, and reports their termination status
- To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await
- Wait is used in expressions such as wait a minute, wait a second, and wait a moment to interrupt someone when they are speaking, for example because you object to what they are saying or because you want them to repeat something. `Wait a minute!' he broke in. `This is not giving her a fair hearing!' = hold on, hang on
- If you tell someone to wait and see, you tell them that they must be patient or that they must not worry about what is going to happen in the future because they have no control over it. We'll have to wait and see what happens. a wait-and-see attitude. a period of time in which you wait for something to happen, someone to arrive etc wait for
- time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
- To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders
- You can use wait when you are trying to make someone feel excited, or to encourage or threaten them. If you think this all sounds very exciting, just wait until you read the book As soon as you get some food inside you, you'll feel more cheerful. Just you wait
- If something is waiting for you, it is ready for you to use, have, or do. There'll be a car waiting for you When we came home we had a meal waiting for us Ships with unfurled sails wait to take them aboard
- look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him"
- If an employee waits on you, for example in a restaurant or hotel, they take orders from you and bring you what you want. There were plenty of servants to wait on her Each student is expected to wait at table for one week each semester
- A wait is a period of time in which you do very little, before something happens or before you can do something. the four-hour wait for the organizers to declare the result
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" serve as a waiter in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's" stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets" wait before acting
- A UNIX® command which will wait for all background processes to complete, and report their termination status
- Makes the script wait for the specified number of ticks I havent timed how many ticks there are in a second, but I would guess roughly 15 If you leave out the argument, it will wait for one tick
- The act of waiting; a delay; a halt
- {i} staying where one is; expectation; ambush; member of a choir that sings on Christmas
- stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"
- A wait for a request to complete Completion will be indicated by a signal
- Tells an application whether or not to wait for the previous generation's execution to complete before initiating the next generation's work
- emphasis If you say that you can't wait to do something or can hardly wait to do it, you are emphasizing that you are very excited about it and eager to do it. We can't wait to get started It's gonna be great. I can hardly wait
- Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen
- When you wait for something or someone, you spend some time doing very little, because you cannot act until that thing happens or that person arrives. I walk to a street corner and wait for the school bus Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen I waited to see how she responded Angus got out of the car to wait We will have to wait a week or so before we know whether the operation is a success He told waiting journalists that he did not expect a referendum to be held for several months. + waiting wait·ing The waiting became almost unbearable
- 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
- period of expectation, as in: Dinner took a long time, but it was well worth the wait
- To serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment
- To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; said of a meal; as, to wait dinner
- to delay movement or action until the arrival or occurence of; to await
- Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular
- Operation - Wait one game tic This command is mostly used when creating complex sets of commands and aliases Some commands cannot be executed in the same game slice, so this command allows a space in time between executing different commands *WARNING, the time of the command varies from system to system based on the CPU speed It's a bad idea to use the command to time things referencing human time, and it's also quite unwise using the command more than once in an alias
- To watch; to observe; to take notice
- To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect
- wait before acting
- {f} remain in a location until a specific occurrence; be ready or available; work as a waiter; work as an attendant; postpone
- To refrain from dating or serious romantic entanglement while one's significant other serves a mission
- matte
- sleep
- {f} bide
- wait for
- To await the arrival of
I'm waiting for the train.
- wait for
- To wait until the specified event occurs
What are you waiting for?.
- wait for the ball to drop
- To wait in expectation of an occurrence
- wait for the other shoe to drop
- To await a seemingly inevitable event, especially one which is not desirable
After the tournament, Player admitted that all through the final round he had been nervously waiting for more trouble. It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop..
- wait for the other shoe to drop
- To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved
- wait on
- To wait for an event
I'm waiting on the light to change.
- wait on
- To wait for a person to do something
I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
- wait on
- To serve someone
Is someone waiting on you yet?.
- wait on hand and foot
- To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess
Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.
- wait on hand, foot and finger
- Alternative form of wait on hand and foot
- wait on someone hand, foot and finger
- Alternative form of wait on hand and foot
- wait on someone hand, foot, and finger
- Alternative form of wait on hand and foot
- wait state
- Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved
With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
- wait states
- plural form of wait state
- wait tables
- To wait as a server in a restaurant or other dine-in eatery
- wait up
- To stay awake waiting for somebody to return
I'll probably be out very late tonight, so don't wait up for me.
- wait up
- Wait
Hey, wait up a minute! I forgot my umbrella.
- wait upon hand and foot
- Alternative form of wait on hand and foot
- wait-a-bit
- any of several small bushes with sharp hooked thorns
- wait staff
- Waiting staff, wait staff, or waitstaff are those who work at a restaurant or a bar attending customers — supplying them with food and drink as requested. Traditionally, a male waiting tables is called a "waiter" and a female a "waitress." Some people prefer to use gender-neutral language, using waiter indiscriminately for males and females, waitperson, server, or waitron, an Americanism coined in the 1980s. Waiting staff can also be employed in (mainly large) private households, but there such specialisation is rarer with the general domestic staff performing the function of waiting staff. Waiting on tables is part of the most common occupations in the U.S., which is the service business (along with nursing, and teaching). The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that, as of May 2005, there are over 2.2 million persons employed as waiters and waitresses in the U.S
- wait a bit
- hold on, wait just a moment, wait a short time
- wait a little
- hold on a bit
- wait a second
- hold on for a moment
- wait and see
- wait and find out, wait patiently, no hurry
- wait and see policy
- law of waiting and not acting
- wait around
- If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives. The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike I waited around to speak to the doctor. the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport
- wait awhile
- hold on for a bit
- wait for
- wait until a person or something arrives; wait until a person is finished with something (e.g. "I will wait for you until you finish your meal")
- wait for ages
- wait for a very long time for something to happen
- wait for dead man's shoes
- wait for someone to die in order to inherit his possessions
- wait for us
- stay until we arrive
- wait in
- If you wait in, you deliberately stay at home and do not go out, for example because someone is coming to see you. If I'd waited in for you I could have waited all day = stay in
- wait in line
- not act until your turn has arrived
- wait list
- List of students who meet the admission requirements but will only be offered a place in the class if space becomes available
- wait list
- The application process that allows a student to be considered for a different type of room after Lottery is completed Wait list applications are taken for single, double, and triple rooms, as well as for Emerson Hall, the College Circle Apartments, the Garden Apartments, and the Terrace Suites
- wait list
- is a term used by institutions to describe a process in which they may initially delay offering or denying admission, but rather extend the possibility of admission in the future Colleges offer admission to wait list candidates if insufficient numbers of regularly admitted candidates accept their offers of admission Top of Page
- wait list
- A term used by institutions to describe a process which they may initially delay offering or deny admission Rather, the institution extends the possibility of admissions in the future Colleges offer admission to wait list candidates if insufficient numbers of regularly admitted candidates accept their offers of admission
- wait list
- A list of students who were not accepted outright to colleges but were too strong to reject outright These wait lists can include as few as ten students and as many as several hundred Every school has a different policy with regard to putting students on the wait list
- wait list
- In enrollment, a list of eligible students waiting to enroll in a class that is currently full
- wait list
- List of students who meet the admission requirements but will be offered a place in the class only if space becomes available
- wait list
- a term used by institutions to describe a process in which they may initially delay offering admission Colleges offer admission to wait list candidates if insufficient number of regularly admitted candidates accept their offers of admission
- wait on
- serve; accompany
- wait on
- work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years"
- wait on
- If you are waiting on something, you are waiting for it to happen, for example before you do or decide anything. Since then I've been waiting on events
- wait on a person hand and foot
- serve someone, satisfy someone's desires, do everything for a person
- wait state
- (n ) A condition whereby a microprocessor awaits the arrival of data
- wait state
- An internal condition of delay in processing time executed by the CPU when a synchronizing control signal is not present Wait states synchronize the timing of a CPU with the relatively slower access time of the computer's main memory
- wait state
- A figure of speech meaning that someone's waiting for something ("Bob's in a wait state outside") RB: 1
- wait state
- When the CPU delays or waits for one or more processing cycles until the data from memory arrives
- wait state
- A state when no instructions can be executed because the processor is waiting for data from a device or from memory A holding pattern into which the 8085 can go by generating WAIT states (nops) It does this whenever its READY input is low Present computers has no wait state and are known as a zero wait state computers
- wait state
- An inactive period for the processor Wait states result from the different clock speeds of the processor and memory, the latter being typically slower
- wait time
- (Ticaret) idle time
- wait up
- If you wait up, you deliberately do not go to bed, especially because you are expecting someone to return home late at night. I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him Don't wait up. = stay up
- wait up
- wait for someone to arrive, remain awake
- wait up
- If you ask someone to wait up, you are asking them to go more slowly or to stop and wait for you. I was running down the hill shouting, `Michael, Michael, man, wait up'. = wait
- all things come to those who wait
- A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue
- can't wait
- To eagerly anticipate; to find it unbearable to wait for a forthcoming pleasurable event
I can't wait for that party on Friday.
- good things come to those who wait
- A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue
- lie in wait
- To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly
- time and tide wait for no man
- action is necessary without delay
- waiting
- Attendance, service
Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
- waiting
- Watching
- waiting
- Present participle of wait
In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
- waits
- A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas
- waits
- plural form of wait
- waits
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wait
- waiting
- {a} staying, serving, attending
- waits
- {n} nightly musicians, nightly music
- can't wait
- is bursting which anticipation, is very excited, is looking forward to something very much
- could not wait
- did not succeed in waiting any longer (out of excitement, anticipation, anger, etc.)
- just you wait and see
- wait to see that I'm right; wait to see that you'll get your just desserts
- lay in wait
- waited in ambush, ambushed
- lay wait
- ambush, hide out and wait to attack
- let's wait and see
- let's give it time, let's wait a while
- lie in wait
- waylay, ambush, hide out and wait
- lie in wait for
- waylay, ambush, hide out and wait for -
- lying in wait
- waiting in an ambushing, hiding and waiting for -
- lying in wait
- waiting in concealment; in ambush; "an army lying in wait in the forest
- please wait
- please hold on, please wait patiently
- please wait-all the lines are busy
- taped message that is heard by people who are holding for an open line
- time and tide wait for no man
- one person cannot stop the forces of time, one person cannot change events that are fated to continue
- wait for
- attend
- waited
- past of wait
- waiting
- {s} serving, attending to (as to royalty)
- waiting
- Present participle of to wait
- waiting
- Watching, hence, an ogling
- waiting
- from Wait, v
- waiting
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him"
- waiting
- 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"
- waiting
- {i} remaining in one place until a certain time or event
- waiting
- The act of staying or remaining in expectation
- waits
- third-person singular of wait
- waits
- plural of wait
- waits
- {i} group of singers who collects donations at Christmas