(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
(v. t.) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
(v. t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
(v. t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
(v. i.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
(v. i.) Ambush.
(v. i.) One who watches; a watchman.
(v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
(v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
(2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(4) It is possible that the high level of radiolabeled phospholipid found in the plasma membrane arose via the de novo pathway following the cleavage of an acyl group as we have found cytidine diphosphocholine phosphotransferase in the plasma membrane fraction (Wang, P., DeChatelet, L.R., and Waite, M. (1977) Biochim.
(5) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(6) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(7) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(8) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(9) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(10) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(11) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
(12) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(13) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
(14) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.
(15) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(16) Separate calculation of changes in prolactin after the course of medical treatment, pregnancies or 'just waiting' periods showed mean PRL concentrations to be significantly lower only for 'functional' patients after pregnancy.
(17) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
(18) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
(19) A group placed on a waiting list for 3 weeks was used as a control group.
(20) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."
Waitress
Definition:
(n.) A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was also convicted of groping a girl aged about eight who had sought his autograph at a public event in Portsmouth, and touching a teenage waitress during the filming of a TV show in Cambridge.
(2) In Skipton, 20-year-old Alice Keirle had taken a 90-minute detour to avoid road closures and get to her waitressing job at the Boathouse Cafe.
(3) Try the goulash, and don't forget to tip your waitress).
(4) I was a waitress and I served them breakfast at 5am and they were so kind to me.
(5) And on my first morning in Oregon my middle-aged waitress asked me why I was there, and, when I told her, said approvingly that her sister had taken her own life after six years in pain: "When she'd done it her face looked like she was 20."
(6) Steph Burningham , 21, who is doing a BA in graphic and communication design at Leeds University, used to have a Saturday job as a waitress but now runs her own freelance web-design business.
(7) An injured Guatemalan waitress, she said, was kidnapped as soon as she returned across the bridge.
(8) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
(9) David Cameron was given a table at the back last year, largely because the waitress didn't recognise him.
(10) The other costumes on the top rail are a pink cowgirl outfit, a pink waitress costume, a pink and purple superhero costume and a "hair stylist" tabard, in pink with purple trim, complete with plastic comb, mirror, scissors and hairdryer.
(11) Waitresses at the Koryo Hotel in the North Korean capital dressed up in sparkly traditional Korean dresses and decorated the lobby with balloons.
(12) The waitress puts two more Primus down on the table.
(13) He was pretty much working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when we met him.
(14) He claimed that A Raisin in the Sun, written while Hansberry made a living as a waitress and cashier, "put more of the truth of black people's lives on the stage than any other play in the entire history of theatre".
(15) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
(16) At the end of their meal the group stiffed the waitress, flushed the check and ran away yelling something about Obamacare.
(17) Bow-tied waitresses in miniskirts deliver high-ball rums to men in suits while heavily-painted women sip champagne from their positions on the sidelines.
(18) Marisol was a topless waitress before drugs fried her brain, Becky was a nurse, despite being raped at 14, before she killed someone and was jailed, and another man was a serious gang banger.
(19) Click here to view Waitress Trudie takes a decidedly extreme course of action when faced with another Christmas without a boyfriend.
(20) The entire team is good," a waitress who professed to be a football fan said.