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Lodge vs Await - What's the difference?

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Lodge is a related term of await.


In lang=en terms the difference between lodge and await

is that lodge is to become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind while await is to wait; to stay in waiting.

As nouns the difference between lodge and await

is that lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin while await is (label) a waiting for; ambush.

As verbs the difference between lodge and await

is that lodge is to be firmly fixed in a specified position while await is (formal) to wait for.

lodge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
  • (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
  • (Raymond)
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • * De Foe
  • the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
  • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.

    Verb

    (lodg)
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
    The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
  • To stay in any place or shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Stay and lodge by me this night.
  • * Milton
  • Something holy lodges in that breast.
  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .

    Derived terms

    * lodger * lodging * lodgement

    Anagrams

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    await

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (formal) To wait for.
  • * Milton
  • Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • To expect.
  • To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
  • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
  • * Milton
  • O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
  • To wait on, serve or attend.
  • To watch, observe.
  • To wait (on or upon).
  • To wait; to stay in waiting.
  • Synonyms

    * (wait for) wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound)

    Usage notes

    * As await means to wait for'', it is not followed by "for". ''*I am awaiting for your reply is therefore incorrect.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A waiting for; ambush.
  • (label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
  • *:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
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