different between wading vs waiting

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d??

Adjective

wading (not comparable)

1. Appropriate to wade in.

   The pool is too small for doing laps: it's only a wading pool.

2. Which wades (usually said of birds).

   Flamingos are wading birds.

Verb

wading

1. present participle of wade

Noun

wading (countable and uncountable, plural wadings)

1. The act of one who wades.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies

     […] the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams […]

Anagrams

• dawing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?t??/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?we?????]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Verb

waiting

1. present participle of wait
   • 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.

     In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

Derived terms

• waiting game
• waiting room
• waiting shelter

Noun

waiting (countable and uncountable, plural waitings)

1. (obsolete) Watching.
2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
   • 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets:

     There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.

3. Attendance, service.

Derived terms

• in waiting

Translations

References

• waiting in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.