Waitname

• 1

  A surname.

waitverb/weɪt/

• 1

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

  • Wait here until your car arrives.
  • I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..
• 2

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

  • She used to wait in this joint.
• 3

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 (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

  • to wait one’s turn
  • Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
• 4

  obsoleteTo 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.
  • Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
• 5

  obsoleteTo attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.

• 6

  obsoleteTo defer or postpone (especially a meal).

  • Montague Thorold, who impatiently watched her wherever she went, came to tell her that his mother waited breakfast for her.
• 7

  obsoleteTo watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait

• 8

  To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.

  • 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."
  • I will wait / Even if it takes forever / I will wait / Even if it takes a lifetime

waitnoun/weɪt/

• 1

  A delay.

  • I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
• 2

  An ambush.

  • They lay in wait for the patrol.
  • an enemy in wait
• 3

  obsoleteOne who watches; a watchman.

• 4

  obsoleteHautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

  • […]as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way
• 5

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

  • Hark! are the waits abroad?
  • 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon 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.

waitintj/weɪt/

• 1

  informalTells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.

  • - And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• wait state