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time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"

wait before acting

serve as a waiter in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"

time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"

wait before acting

wait on tables; serve as a waiter; in restaurants"I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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.

To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.

To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.

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

The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.

Ambush.

One who watches; a watchman.

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.

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

To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; - said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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.

To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.

To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.

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

The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.

Ambush.

One who watches; a watchman.

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.

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

To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; - said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.

Ambush.

To rest in expectation.

To stand in readiness. To be or act as a waiter.

To linger or tarry; to remain; to stay in a condition of watching or expecting: with for; as, we waited for her for an hour; to attend or serve; as, to wait upon a table.

To expect or tarry for; to delay; as, to wait dinner.

The act of staying, or the length of time during which one stays, in expectation; delay.

To stay in expectation: to remain: to attend (with on): to follow: to lie in ambush.

To stay for: to await.

The act of waiting for something or somebody: as, after a long wait we were admitted: the act of waiting in concealment for the purpose of attacking; ambush; a kind of old night watchman: one of a band of musicians in the pay of a town corporation whose duties were at first to pipe or sound the hours and guard the streets, but subsequently to act merely as town's minstrels or musicians; "For as the custom prevails at present there is scarce a young man of any fashion in a corporation that does not make love with the town music; the waits often help him through his courtship."-Steele: at present, one of a band of musicians who promenade the streets during the night and early morning about Christmas or New-year time, performing music appropriate to the season: an old musical instrument of the hautboy or shawm kind; the name of the instrument may be from the waits, who chiefly performed on it.

To stay for; await.

To stay in expectation; remain.

n. Ambush ;-pl. Itinerant musicians who perform in the streets about Christmas time at night or in the early morning ; serenaders.