Phrase Hound found 52 phrases and 35 compound words that contain wait. The most common are listed below. Open wait in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 52
- wait-and-seeTending to observe events before coming to a decision.
- wait a minuteUsed to indicate a new insight or dawning understanding.
- lie in waitTo be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly.
- wait-a-whileSynonym of wait-a-bit: Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
- just you waitIndicates that something unpleasant is going to happen to the interlocutor, and the speaker is glad about it, as in vengeance or punishment.
- wait upTo stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
- watch and waitWatchful waiting.
- can waitA response to can't wait that negates the phrase.
- wait-listAlternative form of waitlist: A waiting list.
- wait staffAlternative form of waitstaff: Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
- wait-a-bitAny of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
- wait stateAny of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved.
- can't waitTo eagerly anticipate; to find it hard to wait for a forthcoming pleasurable event.
- wait timeSynonym of waiting time: The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.
- lying in waitThe act of hiding and waiting for someone with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to them.
- wait-freeInvolving no busy-wait loops or locks for synchronizing with other threads. Able to act immediately without waiting on others.
- wait aroundTo spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome.
- wait timesplural of wait time: The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.
- wait outTo wait through (something): wait (through) till the end; patiently endure.
- busy waitSynonym of busy loop: A loop that actively consumes CPU cycles while waiting for an event.
- good things come to those who waitA patient seeker will be satisfied in due time.
- hurry up and waitTo hurry to complete a task or arrive at a destination by a specified time, only for nothing to happen, due to other requirements that have yet to be satisfied.
- wait tablesTo wait as a server in a restaurant or other dine-in eatery.
- wait in the wingsTo be about to become important or central.
- lay in waitsimple past of lie in wait
Compound words 35
- waitlistA waiting list.
- WaitsfieldA town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
- waitstaffCollectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
- waitableImplementing a wait/notify functionality.
- overwaitTo wait for an excessive amount of time; wait beyond the time allowed or expected; wait too long.
- postwaitAfter a period of waiting.
- prewaitBefore a period of waiting.
- waithoodA period of limbo faced by young college graduates in developing countries, in which activities belonging to the traditional transition into adulthood, such as marriage and buying a home, are put off to allow the securing of employment or …
- waitpersonA waiter or waitress.
- waiteeOne who is waiting for service.