different between waisting vs waiting

English

Etymology

waist +? -ing

Noun

waisting (plural waistings)

1. That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).

   The decorative material used as waisting also served as a girdle for her midlife expansion.

2. A failure in mechanical testing, where part of the testpiece becomes narrow.

Usage notes

• Often a misspelling of wasting.

Anagrams

• waitings

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.