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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



... passed his home, to which he had so kindly invited her. And that made her think for a moment about Uncle Jabez and Aunt Alvirah. Would she find somebody waiting to take her to the Red Mill when she got back to ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson
... been sent out with crowded cargoes of sight-seers. At every station along the road excited crowds are waiting for ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... two planks, Francis began, with the dagger, to cut a hole of some three or four inches across, but tapering rapidly as it went in. After waiting for some ten minutes, he touched the man lying next to him, placed his hand on the hole he had begun, and then moved aside to allow him to continue ...
— The Lion of Saint Mark - A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century • G. A. Henty
... to lean forward with limp hanging arms. Across the stars was a dark veil, riven at long intervals with the copper of sheet lightning. Her room, too, was dark. A light would bring a pest of mosquitoes. The high remote falsetto of several, as it was, proclaimed an impatient waiting for ...
— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... talk to Sibylla West about that," answered Fred. "When young ladies keep you a good hour waiting, while they make themselves ready to start, you can't get back ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood


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