Standby vs Waiting - What's the difference?
standby | waiting |
State of readiness without being immediately involved.
(travel) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.
Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used.
* 1874 , (John Fiske), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy , I. 122.
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, title= (obsolete) Watching.
The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
* 1876 , , The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
Attendance, service.
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As nouns the difference between standby and waiting
is that standby is state of readiness without being immediately involved while waiting is watching.As verbs the difference between standby and waiting
is that standby is wait briefly: an alternative spelling of nocap=1|lang=en while waiting is present participle of lang=en.standby
English
Alternative forms
* stand-byNoun
(en noun)- ''The troops were on standby in case of an attack.
- That recipe is an old standby , and she keeps the ingredients around in case of unexpected guests.
Verb
- Standby while I check that for you.
waiting
English
(wikipedia waiting)Verb
(head)- In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
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 roomNoun
- There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
- Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.