wait
noun · verb · interjectionA1- Tiếng Việt:
- chờ đợi
chờ đợi. Họ từ WAIT — danh từ: wait; động từ: wait.
Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
Wait here until your car arrives.
I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..
- 2.
(US, intransitive, stative)To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
She used to wait in this joint.
- 3.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
to wait one’s turn
- 4.
(obsolete, transitive)To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
- 5.
(obsolete)To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
- 6.
(colloquial, obsolete)To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
- 7.
(obsolete)(obsolete, except in phrases) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
- 8.
(intransitive)To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A delay.
I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
- 2.
An ambush.
They lay in wait for the patrol.
- 3.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)(computing) Ellipsis of wait state.
- 4.
(obsolete)One who watches; a watchman.
- 5.
(UK, in plural, obsolete)(in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
- 6.
(UK, in plural)(in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
interjection
interjectionwaight
- 1.
(informal)Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.
- And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?
Đồng nghĩa: hold on, wait a minute, just a minute
Cụm từ thường dùng
wait for
giới từ đi kèm
wait patiently
cụm thông dụng
long wait
cụm thông dụng
Họ từ
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Đồng nghĩa
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Nguồn gốc từ
ine-pro From Middle English waiten, from waiter, waitier (compare guetter from gaitier, guaitier), from *wahtwēn (to watch, guard), derivative of *wahtu (guard, watch), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (guard, watch), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (to be fresh, cheerful, awake).