awaiting [
ə'wet]
[计] 等待
Await \A*wait"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Awaited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Awaiting}.] [OF. awaitier, agaitier; ? (L. ad) + waitier,
gaitier to watch, F. guetter. See {Wait}.]
1. To watch for; to look out for. [Obs.]
2. To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]
3. To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See {Expect}.
Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,
Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
--Milton.
4. To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a
glorious reward awaits the good.
O Eve, some farther change awaits us night.
--Milton.
- A second person who ate poisonous mushrooms at a dinner party underwent a liver transplant operation Friday, and another person was awaiting a donor.
- The agency also acknowledged last week that many aircraft owners may have postponed purchase of Mode C units awaiting the outcome of an aircraft owners' challenge to the rule, which the FAA rejected only two weeks ago.
- Ronnie, 7, died at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital in April 1987 while awaiting his fourth transplant.
- The invitations have gone out, and hundreds of monkeys are eagerly awaiting their second annual sit-down brunch courtesy of a hotel owner.
- One man was handcuffed and all passengers were removed from a Continental airplane awaiting takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday in what turned out to be a groundless threat, authorities said.
- But he did not telegraph to skeptical liberals or to newly wary conservatives just where he would stand on the questions awaiting the closely divided court - matters including abortion, civil rights and criminal justice.
- A 20-year-old Dallas man and a 19-year-old Garland woman were in jail Wednesday awaiting arraignment on burglary and theft charges.
- It was approved last year by the Senate Judiciary Committee and is awaiting action by the full Senate.
- "We've heard talk of loosening things up," he said, "but we are awaiting action." Others at the meeting at the Soviet Embassy were Reps.
- "About all it means is that we are losing a shareholder. This will not impair our ability to raise capital" for the previously proposed expansion of TransCanada's system in 1991-1992, he said, which is currently awaiting Canadian regulatory approval.
- Ground also is being broken for a new jail to hold inmates awaiting trial.
- Another gene-therapy experiment, also approved by NIH last week and awaiting FDA clearance, would treat patients with a lethal form of skin cancer.
- That was one of the incidents that eventually led the United States to invade Panama Dec. 20 and oust Noriega, now jailed in Miami awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges.
- A UN investigator yesterday urged Russia to release 71,000 people awaiting trial in what he called inhuman and overcrowded conditions.
- I, for one, am eagerly awaiting a colorized "Casablanca."
- The settlement, attached to the defense appropriations bill currently awaiting action by the full Senate, expresses support for the SDI, but only as a research program.
- But that's not the end of Gage, and only the beginning of the horror awaiting the Creeds.
- Miranda is the fourth co-defendant awaiting trial on charges of assisting Noriega in drug trafficking.
- Still awaiting the reply he never got from Mr. Petit, Dr. Yanev was arrested last summer attempting to scale the Pont Massena, 60 feet above Parisian railroad tracks.
- So have the attorneys for U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of Florida, who also is awaiting a verdict.
- He is awaiting sentencing in New York.
- Caro-Quintero is in custody awaiting trial in Mexico City.
- Mr. Boesky has pleaded guilty to a felony connected with the insider-trading investigation and is awaiting sentencing.
- Few believe the promise of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua that it is safe for them to return peacefully, and many see death awaiting them in the Nicaraguan jungle.
- Other dealers said market participants were awaiting the release of U.S. economic figures this week, including a report on orders for durable goods, due later today in Washington, and estimates of third-quarter growth in the gross national product.
- The two sailors are in pre-trial detention awaiting court martial by the Navy.
- The school board was awaiting written confirmation of Ward's condition from his physician in Indianapolis, Jobe said.
- Because an additional 1,572 bales are awaiting decertification, while just 351 bales are awaiting certification so they can be added to the exchange's stocks, inventories could fall below 29,000 bales.
- Because an additional 1,572 bales are awaiting decertification, while just 351 bales are awaiting certification so they can be added to the exchange's stocks, inventories could fall below 29,000 bales.
- "It's just a matter of getting the right person to come to one of our drives," said Miss Atlas, one of 9,000 people awaiting a donor.