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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
▸ verb:  (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
▸ verb:  (obsolete, except in phrases) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
▸ noun:  A delay.
▸ noun:  An ambush.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
▸ noun:  (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
▸ noun:  (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.]
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (computing) Short for wait state. [(computing) Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved.]

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