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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/, [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [Canada, US] Audio: en-us-waiting.ogg Forms: waitings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English waitynge, waytynge, equivalent to wait + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|waitynge}} Middle English waitynge, {{suf|en|wait|-ing|id2=gerund noun}} wait + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} waiting (countable and uncountable, plural waitings)
  1. (obsolete) Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-waiting-en-noun-k0Q0665P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Ligurian translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 3 1 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun): 64 7 3 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 7 4 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 5 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 3 2 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 82 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 84 8 5 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 82 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 86 7 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 83 8 5 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 79 10 4 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 82 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 87 6 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 87 6 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Ligurian translations: 82 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 82 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 82 9 5 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 87 6 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 82 8 5 5
  2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of staying or remaining in expectation): чакане (čakane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), изчакване (izčakvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), wachten (Dutch), afwachten (Dutch), odotus (Finnish), odottaminen (Finnish), attente [feminine] (French), Warten [neuter] (German), várakozás (Hungarian), fanacht [feminine] (Irish), attesa [feminine] (Italian), aspettazione [feminine, uncommon] (Italian), aspetto [archaic, masculine] (Italian), 待つこと (matsu koto) (Japanese), atéiza [feminine] (Ligurian), vente (Norwegian), czekanie [neuter] (Polish), ожида́ние (ožidánije) [neuter] (Russian), чека́ння (čekánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-waiting-en-noun-Bc-jdZzA Disambiguation of 'the act of staying or remaining in expectation': 2 98 0
  3. Attendance, service. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (attendance, service): сервиране (servirane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), обслужване (obslužvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), bedienen (Dutch), palvelu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-waiting-en-noun-yHtbsu8C Disambiguation of 'attendance, service': 1 0 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/, [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [Canada, US] Audio: en-us-waiting.ogg
Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English waitinge, waytynge, waitende, weytende, waitand, waytand, equivalent to wait + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|waitinge}} Middle English waitinge, {{suf|en|wait|-ing|id2=participial}} wait + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} waiting
  1. present participle and gerund of wait Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: wait
    Sense id: en-waiting-en-verb-4-kxj29h Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ing (participial)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈweɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-us-waiting.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪtɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "waiting"
  ],
  "word": "waiting"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
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    "Rhymes:English/eɪtɪŋ",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪtɪŋ/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Ligurian translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "call waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "in waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "ready and waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting area"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting game"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting period"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting room"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting shed"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting shelter"
    },
    {
      "word": "waiting time"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "waitynge"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English waitynge",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wait",
        "3": "-ing",
        "id2": "gerund noun"
      },
      "expansion": "wait + -ing",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English waitynge, waytynge, equivalent to wait + -ing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waitings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "waiting (countable and uncountable, plural waitings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Watching",
          "watching#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "observation",
          "observation"
        ],
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ],
        [
          "guarding",
          "guarding"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Waiting for something to happen is part of the job. (gerund)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122:",
          "text": "In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets:",
          "text": "There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of staying or remaining in expectation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "expectation",
          "expectation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXVI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 227:",
          "text": "But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Attendance, service."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Attendance",
          "attendance"
        ],
        [
          "service",
          "service"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈweɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-waiting.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/En-us-waiting.ogg/En-us-waiting.ogg.mp3",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪtɪŋ"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čakane",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "чакане"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izčakvane",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "изчакване"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "wachten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "afwachten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "odotus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "odottaminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "attente"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Warten"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "várakozás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fanacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "attesa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "word": "aspettazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aspetto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "matsu koto",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "待つこと"
    },
    {
      "code": "lij",
      "lang": "Ligurian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atéiza"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "word": "vente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "czekanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ožidánije",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ожида́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čekánnja",
      "sense": "the act of staying or remaining in expectation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "чека́ння"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "servirane",
      "sense": "attendance, service",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "сервиране"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obslužvane",
      "sense": "attendance, service",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "обслужване"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "attendance, service",
      "word": "bedienen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attendance, service",
      "word": "palvelu"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "waiting"
  ],
  "word": "waiting"
}

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