waited
English
wait
English
Verb
(en verb )
To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
* Dryden
- Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 30:
- The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
* (John Milton)
- They also serve who only stand and wait .
* (John Dryden)
- Haste, my dear father; ’tis no time to wait .
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(US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
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(obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
* Dryden
- He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.
* Rowe
- Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
(obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
- to wait dinner
Usage notes
* In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
Synonyms
* (delay until event) hold one’s breath
Derived terms
* can’t wait
* wait staff
* wait state
* wait for
* wait on
* wait tables
* waiter
* waiting room
* waitperson
* waitress
* waitron
Noun
(en noun )
A delay.
- I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
An ambush.
- They laid in wait for the patrol.
* Milton
- an enemy in wait
(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
(in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
- (Halliwell)
(in the plural, archaic, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
* (rfdate )
- Hark! are the waits abroad?
* (rfdate )
- The sound of the waits , rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
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gaited
English
gait
Noun
(en noun )
Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
- Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait .
(horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
Verb
(en verb )
To teach a specific gait to a horse.
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