(v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.
(v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
(v. i.) To watch.
(v. i.) To wait (on or upon).
(v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.
(n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clearer understanding of these relationships and their application to clinical management await further study.
(2) Seven children have been hospitalised for a week and more than 700 people are awaiting medical test results.
(3) The incidence of recurrent haemorrhage during the period awaiting surgery was 13.7%.
(4) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(5) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(6) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(7) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
(8) These case histories, and very substantial background proof of efficacy and safety, justify treating with CoQ10 patients in failure awaiting transplantation.
(9) The method concerns identifying donor-recipient tissue compatibility by use of the two-way mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR), in which reacting cells from patients awaiting transplants are primed with phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and stored.
(10) Genital irritation caused urinary symptoms with no clinical evidence of infection, and it is advised that antibiotic treatment should await urine culture.
(11) While awaiting renal transplantation, patients with end-stage renal failure frequently have to spend a period of time on dialysis.
(12) The BBC Trust met on Thursday to discuss Thompson's long-awaited DQF cost-cutting proposals .
(13) Whether these two effects are causally related awaits future study.
(14) It comes as Chilcot continues to avoid setting a final deadline for the publication of his long-awaited report into the war.
(15) A t the end of April two chairs in Westminster will await the arrival of Tony Hall , incoming director general of the BBC, and Chris Patten, chairman of the corporation's trust.
(16) Pardew apologised for his behaviour on Saturday night and the FA is awaiting the referee's report before deciding on action against the 52-year-old, who has been fined £100,000 by Newcastle and severely reprimanded by the club .
(17) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(18) These results indicate that at 24 h postmortem the extra fluid released from PSE pork already has been lost from the myofilament lattice and is awaiting release from compartments downstream such as interfiber and interfascicular spaces.
(19) In 2019, the long-awaited Crossrail project is due to open, but up until a few weeks ago, seven of the 38 stations on the route were set to remain inaccessible.
(20) The Guardian has asked for clarification of the retailer's position and is awaiting a response.
Bide
Definition:
(v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
(v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
(v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
(v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Eurosceptics are polite and disciplined for the moment, but they are simply biding their time.
(2) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(3) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(4) Insiders, however, said the governing coalition appeared to be biding time.
(5) The data suggest that the physical nature of the interaction is the same for both types of biding sites, and that the differences in affinity between different binding sites must be explained in terms of tertiary structure.
(6) But experts on the city's politics believe he may simply be biding his time.
(7) This method consist of four steps: (a) biding of antigens to a nitrocellulose membrane (NC); (b) blocking of free sites of the NC; (c) incubation in specific primary antibody; (d) detection of primary antibody reactivity by color development using second antibody coupled to textile dyes.
(8) Light absorption spectra of bilirubin-albumin showed little change on addition of ceftriaxone, in agreement with the competitive biding mechanism.
(9) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
(10) Secured by the Scottish parliament's first ever absolute majority for a single party, Salmond is biding his time.
(11) Though, on the other hand, the hysteria about Russia in the US has surprised me as well.” Russian officials are now biding their time until the scandal dies down.
(12) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(13) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(14) This seems to be due to the presence in human serum of biding factors which are responsible for the rapid clearance of acidic isoferritins from the circulation.
(15) Tuesday saw the return of sass & bide, who gathered a star-studded front row including Iggy Azalea, Zoe Kravitz and Poppy Delevingne, after a six-year hiatus.
(16) Despite Musharraf's willingness to take risks, he avoided coming back to Pakistan while the threat of arrest hung over him, preferring instead to bide his time in London and Dubai.
(17) This has to be it – there can be no biding one’s time on the bench until another call comes because that is going to be a fundamental destabilisation,” MacTiernan told reporters.
(18) You bide your time and wait for your child to be delivered into your care, when you hope you can go home and work on becoming a family.
(19) The RAC, owned by private equity firm Carlyle, has been biding its time with management keen for the dust to settle on the referendum and to see the latest figures from rival AA – which reports its half-year figures on Tuesday.
(20) All of the genes are preceded by a highly conserved region which includes the likely promoter and transcriptional regulator sites as well as the ribosome-biding site, and are followed within a short but variable distance by a sequence with the characteristics of a transcription termination or attenuation signal.