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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



... to have been divinely directed to the stratagem by which the Midianites were thrown into panic. He had been promised victory, but that does not lead him to idle waiting for fulfilment of the promise. 'To wait for God's performance in doing nothing is to abuse that divine providence, which will so work that it will not allow us to idle' (Bishop Hall). True faith will wisely adopt means to reach ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... than 400 huntsmen, all mounted and anxiously waiting for the word "Start," took up their position in a line at one end of the camp, while Captain ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce
... the manner of the worthy old lady that he was wanted, and urgently, by some one or other, he rose from the rustic seat on which he had been sitting, and went to meet her. A gentleman had called to see him, in a phaeton, and was waiting in the parlour in a state of impatience and excitement which Mrs Farrell had never seen the like of. Wondering who the visitor could be, Conrad hastened into the parlour. He found there an elderly individual of gentlemanly appearance, ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 - Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 • Various
... ordinary falling out of affairs they would ride unhindered to Teignmouth, and thence to Allonby Shaw; they counted fully upon doing this; but I, knowing Beatris, who was waiting-maid to the Lady Adeliza, and consequently in the plot, to be the devil's own vixen, despite an innocent face and a wheedling tongue, was ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... two hours. Indeed we've had the devil of a time of it. Treat him carefully, my dear Count; he's in one of his troublesome humors. For example—but I mustn't keep you waiting. Pray ...
— Rupert of Hentzau - From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: The Sequel to - The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope


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