wait

wait

1. viivästys

Esimerkkejä:

Poor Heka had to wait in rain for many hours.

Liittyvät sanat: hold on

Synonyymisanakirja

wait

toimettomuus, odotus, odottaminen, tauko, väliaika, keskeytys, viivytys, pysäytys, viive, lykkäys, viivästys.

Sitaatit

• ''"Now wait a minute!"'' Homer huomaa että häntä on huijattu

Rimmaavat sanat

wait rimmaa näiden kanssa:

parfait, kait, suitsait...

Katso kaikki

Englannin sanakirja

wait (englanti > suomi)

1. odottaa

2. tarjoilla

3. odotus

wait englanniksi

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 (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

2. Dryden

Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.

3. 1992, (w), A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page 30:

The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.

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

5. (w)

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Haste, my dear father; 'tis no time to wait.

6. (quote-book)

(ux)

7. puhekieltä To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.

8. puhekieltä 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.

9. Rowe

Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.

10. puhekieltä To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.

11. puhekieltä To defer or postpone (a meal).

to wait dinner

12. puhekieltä To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.

13. 1957,Dagny Taggart and Francisco d'Anconia, Ayn Rand's w:Atlas_Shrugged Atlas Shrugged

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."

14. 1974, w:The Bee Gees|The Bee Gees, w:Night Fever|Night Fever

I will wait / Even if it takes forever / I will wait / Even if it takes a lifetime

15. A delay.

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

16. An ambush.

They laid in wait for the patrol.

17. Milton

an enemy in wait

18. puhekieltä One who watches; a watchman.

19. puhekieltä hautboy Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

(rfquotek)

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

21. (rfdat) w:Beaumont and Fletcher|Beaumont and Fletcher

Hark! are the waits abroad?

22. (rfdat) w:Washington Irving|Washington Irving

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.

23. white

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