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Baiting vs Waiting - What's the difference?

baiting | waiting |

As verbs the difference between baiting and waiting

is that baiting is while waiting is .

As nouns the difference between baiting and waiting

is that baiting is a bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it while waiting is (obsolete) watching.

baiting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it.
  • The act of luring, as into a trap.

    • See also

    * bait * blood sport

    waiting

    English

    (wikipedia waiting)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1874 , (John Fiske), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy , I. 122.
    • In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
  • *, chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}

    Derived terms

    * waiting game * waiting room

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Watching.
  • The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
  • * 1876 , , The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
    • There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
  • Attendance, service.
  • *
    • Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

    Derived terms

    * in waiting

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