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Waiting (novel)
WordNet
adjective
(1) 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"
noun
(2) The act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
"The wait was an ordeal for him"
WiktionaryText
Verb
waiting
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- Your guest has been waiting for you.
- Waiting for something to happen is part of the job.
- They hurried into the waiting car.
Noun
- Watching, hence, an ogling.
- The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
- Attendance, service.
Quotations
- 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.
- Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
- 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.
- In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
- 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
- There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.