Wait_on vs Befriend - What's the difference?
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(colloquial) To wait for an event.
To wait for a person to do something.
To serve someone.
* Shakespeare
To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
To follow, as a consequence; to await.
* Dr. H. More
To attend to; to perform.
* Bible, Numbers iii. 10
To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; said of a hawk.
To become a friend of, to make friends with.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden), p. 143.
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(dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
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To favor.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare),
* 1709 , (John Denham) "The Sophy", in Poems and translations: with the Sophy, a tragedy , Fifth edition [http://books.google.com/books?id=J_oKSClMF7cC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=%22Now+if+your+plots+be+ripe,+you+are+%27%27%27befriended%27%27%27+With+opportunity%22&source=bl&ots=TM1JZjzUhv&sig=YqPk32bF8zeqdypmaXvHUKGZ_pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZQ1ZUNmmJsa_0QGBkoGgBw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Now%20if%20your%20plots%20be%20ripe%2C%20you%20are%20%27%27%27befriended%27%27%27%20With%20opportunity%22&f=false]
* 1709 , (Alexander Pope), ''(An Essay on Criticism)
* 1712 , (Joseph Addison), . As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants , Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), , ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
Wait_on is a related term of befriend.
As verbs the difference between wait_on and befriend
is that wait_on is (colloquial) to wait for an event while befriend is to become a friend of, to make friends with.wait_on
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Verb
- I'm waiting on the light to change.
- I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
- Is someone waiting on you yet?
- I must wait on myself, must I?
- that ruin that waits on such a supine temper
- Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priest's office.
- The airplane had to wait on the runway for a few minutes before it could take off.
befriend
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Verb
(en verb)- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
- Brother servants must befriend one another.
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.