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Waits vs Waiting - What's the difference?

waits | waiting |

As nouns the difference between waits and waiting

is that waits is while waiting is (obsolete) watching.

As verbs the difference between waits and waiting

is that waits is (wait) while waiting is .

waits

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum, British) A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wait)

    • Anagrams

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    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

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