Crossword clues for waiting
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Wait \Wait\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waited; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiting.] [OE. waiten, OF. waitier, gaitier, to watch, attend, F. guetter to watch, to wait for, fr. OHG. wahta a guard, watch, G. wacht, from OHG. wahh[=e]n to watch, be awake. [root]134. See Wake, v. i.]
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To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.]
``But [unless] ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead,'' quoth she.
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To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. --Job xiv. 14. They also serve who only stand and wait. --Milton. Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait. --Dryden. To wait on or To wait upon.
To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. ``Authority and reason on her wait.''
--Milton. ``I must wait on myself, must I?''
--Shak.To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
To follow, as a consequence; to await. ``That ruin that waits on such a supine temper.''
--Dr. H. More.To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] ``It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.''
--Bacon.To attend to; to perform. ``Aaron and his sons . . . shall wait on their priest's office.''
--Num. iii. 10.(Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk.
--Encyc. Brit.
Waiting \Wait"ing\, a. & n. from Wait, v.
In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. [Eng.]
Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank.
Waiting maid, Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Watching. 2 The act of staying or remaining in expectation. 3 attendance, service. vb. (present participle of wait English)
WordNet
n. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" [syn: wait]
adj. being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting" [syn: ready and waiting(p)]
Wikipedia
Waiting is the debut album by the emo quintet Thursday. The album was produced by Sal Villanueva and released on Eyeball Records in 1999. The photography throughout the album's artwork, with the exception of live shots, was done by Tom Keeley's uncle, Dennis Keeley.
"Waiting" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the third single from their sixth album, Warning. The song peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
The melody of the song is somewhat similar to that of " Do You Wanna Dance?" by Bobby Freeman as well as Petula Clark's " Downtown."
Waiting or The Waiting may refer to:
"Waiting" is the first single of British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released in May 1996. It came in two formats: a regular CD and a 12" vinyl. At the time, the single was intended to promote the forthcoming album Signify. The song is divided into two parts, the second one being an instrumental follow-up
Waiting is considered the first Porcupine Tree single for its length, since Voyage 34 and Voyage 34: Remixes are singles of around 30 and 40 minutes respectively that would fit better in the category of EPs.
The song entered the UK Indie Chart, attracting airplay all over Europe.
Porcupine Tree contributed an edit of "Waiting (Phase Two)" to the film music for the Paul Spurrier's movie Underground, whereas the credits erroneously listed "Waiting (Phase One)".
"Waiting"is the second single from Someone in Control. It topped out at #27 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and #20 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Waiting is an installation film by Ugandan Asian photographer and filmmaker Zarina Bhimji. The film was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007. It was produced by Michael Riley.
Waiting is a 1991 Australian film directed by Jackie McKimmie. At the AFI Awards Fiona Press won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award and the film was nominated in 4 other categories. Jackie McKimmie was awarded the OCIC Award - Honorable Mention in the Venice Film Festival.
Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.
Waiting is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1976 and released on the Blue Note label. The sessions were released on CD as part of Mosaic Select: Bobby Hutcherson in 2007.
Waiting is a children's picture book by American author and illustrator Kevin Henkes. Waiting was published by Harper Collins in 2015.
Waiting is the second and final studio album by the Fun Boy Three. It was released in 1983 and featured the hit single " Our Lips Are Sealed," co-written by Terry Hall and previously performed by The Go-Go's.
Writer Robert Palmer called it one of the "summer's worthier record releases...that shouldn't be overlooked":
The songs are full of barbed political and social commentary with a decidedly English bias. The harmonies and melodic twists and turns are reminiscent of 1930's pop, and the odd but effective arrangements feature trombone, cello and other orchestral instruments in a kind of music hall mélange.
According to music critic Robert Christgau, " David Byrne's production suits songwriting that has advanced beyond the undernourishment of their breakaway debut."
Waiting is a 1999 novel by Chinese-American author Ha Jin which won the National Book Award that year. It is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China. At the hospital was an army doctor who had waited eighteen years to get a divorce so he could marry his longtime friend, a nurse.
The plot revolves around the fortunes of three people: Lin Kong, the army doctor; his wife Shuyu, whom he has never loved; and the nurse Manna Wu, his girlfriend at the hospital where he works. Beginning in 1963 and stretching over a twenty-year period, Waiting is set against the background of a changing Chinese society. It contrasts city and country life and shows the restrictions on individual freedoms that are a routine part of life under communism. But Waiting is primarily a novel of character. It presents a portrait of a decent but deeply flawed man, Lin Kong, whose life is spoiled by his inability to experience strong emotions and to love wholeheartedly.
__NOTOC__ Waiting is a pastel on paper by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas, completed between 1880–82. It is an early example of the more than 200 pastels, paintings, mixed media drawings and sculptures of ballerinas depicted by Degas from the early 1880s. This work is regarded for its vibrant colouring and steep perspective.
The ballerina series follows his earlier studies of both lower and middle class women, where he looked at the moment when they let their public face drop, and pretense gave way to an awareness of the reality of both themselves and their surrounding. With ballerinas he was primarily interested in the contrast between their beauty and grace on stage and the reality of the physical and physiological toil such artifice took on the performers. Of the more than 200 works, only 50 show the dancers performing on stage, the rest are set in rehearsals or capture fleeting, private moments like this. Waiting is an empathetic example, depicting a ballerina accompanied by her chaperone, bent over ostensibly to massage her foot but whose body language indicates a person racked with anticipation before she takes stage.
The background is formed from a wide variety of oranges, browns and blacks, while the younger woman is portrayed in pink, blue, and creamy tones which highlight her softness compared to the severity of the older woman. The work is executed with an innovative mixture of subtle (the woman's feet), slashed (the bench) and hatched (the younger woman's dress) strokes.
Degas was taken by the peripheral world of the dancers, the rehearsals and backstage moments, a world to which he did not have access to until 1885; he only became interest in the ballet in 1870, and backstage was strictly limited to long term patrons. His removal from the moment reflected in the image is highlighted by the unusually steep perspective; the viewer seems to be positioned far above the two woman; looking down as if seated in a box above the auditorium.
Degas was aware from an early point in his studies of the exhaustion of the girls, and the extent to which they pushed the limits of their bodies for fleeting moments of elegance. He was further conscious of the brevity of a ballerina's career, and the positioning of the older chaperone–more than likely an ex-dancer herself–in this work adds to its poignancy; the younger woman representing what her forlorn looking companion once was. Degas, mindful of this, presents an interesting irony - while the young woman waits to make her entrance the older woman waits for her to leave. The tip of the chaperone's umbrella points in the direction the dancer must take; towards the stage and away from her guardian.
Describing the dichotomy of the series, Rilke wrote in 1898 of Degas' pictures of "ballerinas full of sequined rubbish and stage lighting. They surprise us with their ugliness, these girls, whose whole life gradually descends into their legs, so that on their low, twilight brows nothing remains except a dull memory of things never known, and that will soon be lost in the acquired smile..."
The work is jointly owned by the Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Waiting is a 2015 Indian comedy drama film co-written and directed by Anu Menon. Produced by Priti Gupta and Manish Mundra under the banner of Ishka Films and Drishyam Films, the film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin in lead roles. ''Waiting '' revolves around the relationship between two people from different walks of life, who befriend each other in a hospital, while nursing their respective comatose spouses. Rajat Kapoor, Suhasini Maniratnam, Arjun Mathur, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee and Rajeev Ravindranathan play supporting roles in the film.
Development began in June 2014, when Menon signed Koechlin and Shah for an upcoming untitled project. Principal photography began in November 2014 in the coastal town of Kochi. Neha Parti was the director of photography, and Mickey McCleary composed the film score, which was released in May 2016, under the label of Zee Music Company. The lyrics were written by Manoj Muntashir and Ankur Tewari. Nitin Baid and Apurva Asrani edited the film, and Atika Chohan wrote the dialogues. The film had its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival on 11 December 2015 to positive reviews from critics.
Waiting was also screened at the closing gala of the London Asian Film Festival, where Menon won the Best Director Award, and at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The film had released theatrically on 27 May 2016, with A-certification from the censor board. Upon release in India, Waiting was well received by critics with particular praise for the performances of both Koechlin and Shah. The film, however, was an average grosser at the box office, collecting a total of during its theatrical run.
Usage examples of "waiting".
The party had come aboard without waiting to be invited, their leader stepping forward with his hat in his hand.
Then he walked out through the pecan trees in front of the house where Antonio stood waiting with the horses and they stood for a moment in a wordless abrazo and then he mounted up into the saddle and turned the horse into the road.
He was abusing those waiting, and they were beginning to abuse him back.
Burn into thinking Aby might be waiting there, when Burn knew Aby was dead, and what was Burn to think?
Next, wipe the fingertip with alcohol, benzine or acetone, waiting a few seconds for it to dry.
The Sherlock and the Watson floated alongside the offloaded actinium waiting for a lighter to arrive and recover the stolen merchandise.
And presently she felt that she could not lie there any longer, waiting in actionless suspense.
Marathe was an addicted man waiting for seeking treatment by admission.
With Delilah and her father sharing the kitchen and Darla waiting tables, Addle had found herself wandering around useless.
I brea Ankhana and breathe it out again, waiting for that swift ru freedom that Adventuring always brings.
He adjusted his aerator more comfortably and climbed into the waiting truck.
They were a carny crowd waiting for the aerialist to take his dive, and kill himself.
Lord of the Hawks was waiting, and his eyes were as dark a blue as any Aerian eyes she had ever seen.
He returned to the Crystal Palace grounds, that classic starting-point of aeronautical adventure, about sunset, re-entered his shed without disaster, and had the doors locked immediately upon the photographers and journalists who been waiting his return.
Finally, his F-14 was lined up on catapult one, the deck sailors attaching the catapult to the nose gear Collins checked his instruments, the twin turbines purring aft, waiting to be kicked into full thrust.