simple past tense and past participle of wait

simple past tense and past participle of wait on

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 (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

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

present participle of wait