Wait

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

   “Wait here until your car arrives.”

2. fiil To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.

   “She used to wait in this joint.”

3. fiil To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

   “to wait one’s turn”

4. fiil To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

   “He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.”

5. fiil To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
6. fiil To defer or postpone (especially a meal).

   “Montague Thorold, who impatiently watched her wherever she went, came to tell her that his mother waited breakfast for her.”

7. fiil To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
8. fiil To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.

   “She did not question him. Before leaving, she asked only, "When will I see you again?" He answered, "I don't know. Don't wait for me, Dagny. Next time we meet, you will not want to see me."”

9. isim A delay.

   “I had a very long wait at the airport security check.”

10. isim An ambush.

    “They lay in wait for the patrol.”

11. isim Ellipsis of wait state.
12. isim One who watches; a watchman.
13. isim Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

    “[…]as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way”

14. isim Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

    “Hark! are the waits abroad?”

15. ünlem Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.

    “- And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?”

16. özel isim A surname.