Watching vs Waiting - What's the difference?
watching | waiting |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act of one who watches.
* 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
* 1874 , (John Fiske), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy , I. 122.
*, chapter=19
, 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 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)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)- 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 watchingwaiting
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.