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Raining vs Waiting - What's the difference?

raining | waiting |

As verbs the difference between raining and waiting

is that raining is present participle of lang=en while waiting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between raining and waiting

is that raining is a fall of rain while waiting is watching.

raining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall of rain.
  • * 2013 , Maite Ezcurdia, ?Robert J. Stainton, The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy (page 363)
    • This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.

    Anagrams

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    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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