The Collaborative International Dictionary
While \While\, conj.
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During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep. ``While I have time and space.''
--Chaucer.Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it.
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Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.
While as, While that, during or at the time that. [Obs.]
Usage examples of "while as".
The personnel of Eyeball 1, as the team was now officially designated, were gathered around a small table in the cramped Himmit ship eating breakfast and sipping their last real coffee for a while as the planet swelled in the view-screen.
Every once in a while as he walked a police prowl car would roll slowly by, and each time he could sense the cops in it giving him the once-over, but he just kept moving.
Woe unto us, if we choose to rest, as though it were a time of peace and security, while as yet no sign appeareth in our life of true holiness.
The peat glowed on the big hearth, shining brighter once in a while as the wind gusted in the chimney.
Down he goes into the cavern, and digs away for a quarter of a minute, the man the while as immovable as a stone image, when he holds up the bloody tooth.
I stare at the stone for a little while as lights scythe through its clouded depths.
She slowed and jogged for a while as the forest gave way to bright, warm Sol and the enormous, sweeping form of the Tree of Trees became visible once more, rising high into the air above Chapel Halls.
He worked for the government for a while as a cook, or a gravedigger at Arlington Cemetary, or a data somethingorother specialist.