wait

IPA: wˈeɪt

A delay.
An ambush.
(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
(in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
(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.]
A surname.
(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]

(transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
(intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
(transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
(obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
(obsolete, except in phrases) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
(intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.

Examples of "wait" in Sentences

The water was waiting in the pipe.
The facilitator observes and waits.
They waited for the storm to abate.
Waiting at the bottom is the hijacker.
The syndicate then waited for the race.
A hermit waits for the arrival of the crusaders.
The occupants of the washroom are waiting in lines.
We wait and wait and wait on headlong until something happens.
If we delay, postpone, temporize, wait until the next election, it'll get worse.
We're still waiting to see what legerdemain he'll come up with to pay for the new Tappan Zee.