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Käännös
Verbit
1.
Substantiivit
2.

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by "wait for".)
  2. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
  3. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
  4. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
  5. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
  6. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).

Substantiivit

  1. A delay.
  2. An ambush.
  3. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
  4. (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
  5. (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.]

Esimerkit

  • Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
  • — J'ai failli atteeeeendre.
  • — I’m waitiiiiing.
  • 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.
  • Hark! are the waits abroad?
  • an enemy in wait
  • They laid in wait for the patrol.
  • I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
  • to wait dinner
  • Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
  • He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.
  • She used to wait down at the Dew Drop Inn.
  • Wait here until your car arrives.
  • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
  • Haste, my dear father; 'tis no time to wait.
  • They also serve who only stand and wait.
  • The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiwaitedImperfektiwaited
Partisiipin preesenswaitingMonikkowaits
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenswaitsYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenswaiteth (vanhahtava)