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Watching vs Waiting - What's the difference?

watching | waiting |

As verbs the difference between watching and waiting

is that watching is while waiting is .

As nouns the difference between watching and waiting

is that watching is the act of one who watches while waiting is (obsolete) watching.

watching

English

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
  • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching

    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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