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Waiting vs Pending - What's the difference?

waiting | pending |

As verbs the difference between waiting and pending

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

As a noun waiting

is watching.

As an adjective pending is

awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.

As a preposition pending is

while waiting for something; until.

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

    References

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    pending

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation
  • begun but not completed
  • about to happen; imminent or impending

    • See also

    * impending

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • While waiting for something; until.