waiting
present participle of
wait
Meaning of waiting in English
A1
[ + to infinitive ] There were a lot of people waiting to use the phone.
- abrupt halt
- be left phrase
- closeted
- halt
- hang
- hold
- non-rotating
- non-tenured
- outstay
- overstay
- overwinter
- rest
- spot
- stand
- stay on
- stay put idiom
- stick
- stick around
- stop in
- tarry
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Examples of waiting
waiting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is not breakable and fragile like a belief waiting for the iconoclast's hammer.
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The oral dose of propranolol was increased and the child was discharged with his name having been placed on the surgical waiting list.
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Figure 1 illustrates the dramatic reduction in the times patients were waiting for radiotherapy treatment.
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It is doubtful that in such cases an empty, intervening node exists, waiting to be filled in when the relevant function word class is learned.
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This study was performed to find out about the queue discipline in waiting lists for elective surgery to reveal potential discrepancies in waiting list management.
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It is appropriate for elective waiting lists but not for emergency cases or other types of services, where there exists considerable uncertainty on the demand.
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The longer patients wait for appointments, the more inaccurate a waiting list becomes.
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Instruments were generally administered in the waiting room by research assistants prior to consultation.
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Many of the states are not waiting until the issue is resolved at the federal level and are developing their own approaches.
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As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
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A large proportion of each hunting season was simply spent waiting for the correct conditions.
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This extremely rich chemistry is still waiting for the discovery of nitrogen-containing species.
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All three countries are currently making extensive efforts to collect and publish waiting time prognoses and quality data.
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A national audit of waiting times for radiotherapy.
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A waiting list database application was developed to book patients in the correct order of priority and within target waiting times.
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