While vs Stound - What's the difference?
while | stound |
An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
During the same time that.
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(Northern England, Scotland) Until.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As long as.
* I. Watts
To pass (time) idly.
* Longfellow
To loiter.
(chronology, obsolete) An hour.
* 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
(obsolete) A tide, season.
(archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
* 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
(archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
(dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
* 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
* 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
astonishment; amazement
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
* 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
As nouns the difference between while and stound
is that while is an uncertain duration of time, a period of time while stound is (chronology|obsolete) an hour or stound can be a stand; a stop or stound can be a receptacle for holding small beer.As verbs the difference between while and stound
is that while is to pass (time) idly while stound is (obsolete|or|dialectal|intransitive) to hurt, pain, smart or stound can be (obsolete) to stand still; stop.As a conjunction while
is during the same time that.while
English
Noun
(en noun)- He lectured for quite a long while .
Conjunction
(wikipedia while) (English Conjunctions)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=While the powwow was going on the big woman came back again. She was consider'ble rumpled and scratched up, but there was fire in her eye.}}
- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.
- I may be conveyed into your chamber; I'll lie under your bed while midnight.
- Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it.
Verb
(whil)- The lovely lady whiled the hours away.
- (Spectator)
Derived terms
* while away * meanwhile * the whilestound
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(s)- What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
- (Chaucer)
- He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
- Listen to me a little stound .
- (Chaucer)
- No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
- ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
- [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
- (Spenser)
- (Gay)
Derived terms
* ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stoundVerb
(en verb)- Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
- Retraction follow close upon the heels
- Of that late stounding insult […]
- Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."
