plural of waiting

(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to draw attention to and build suspense, often ironically, for a remark to come.

Archaic spelling of wait.

(informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

A delay. / An ambush. / (computing) Short for wait state. / (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman. / (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

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 (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

simple past tense and past participle of wait

To wait until the specified event occurs. / To await the arrival of.

present participle of wait

To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. / (colloquial) To wait for (a person).