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 that".
I find that the report of the Smithsonian Institute gives the average annual rainfall in the section around Andersonville, at fifty-six inches- --nearly five feet--while that of foggy England is only thirty-two.
He had no memory of the oxygen deprivation that damaged the neural machinery of his young cetacean brain, and no memory of the time that passed while that cetacean neural machinery was mapped and studied and repaired and rebuilt by billions of tiny machines.
It seemed the first time in a long while that my professional training and equipment had been of use to me.
The papers kept playing the story for a few months, but after a while that stopped, too.
She followed him, protesting all the while that he ought to wait until Moiraine had seen to his injuries.
After a while that embraced a millennium or a second, as you like, the Only appeared.