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" This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly."
Thomas Malory

Meaning of "the while" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF THE WHILE

the while


WHAT DOES THE WHILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of the while in the English dictionary

The definition of the while in the dictionary is at that time.



WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE WHILE

the Welsh · the west · the West Bank · the West Country · the West End · the wet · the wharves · the wheel · the Wheel Blacks · the wherewithal · the which · the whip hand · the white · the White House · the whole boiling · the whole kit · the whole nine yards · the whole shoot · the whole shooting match · the wild

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE WHILE

Anglophile · audiophile · awhile · bibliophile · chile · cinephile · erewhile · erstwhile · hydrophile · meanwhile · nucleophile · once in a while · otherwhile · paedophile · pedophile · Santiago de Chile · somewhile · wait-a-while · while · worthwhile

Synonyms and antonyms of the while in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the while» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF THE WHILE

Find out the translation of the while to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of the while from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the while» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

的同时,
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

mientras
570 millions of speakers
en

English

the while
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

जबकि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في حين أن
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

в то время
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

enquanto o
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

যখন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

tandis que l´
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sementara itu
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

die während
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

一方、
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

반면
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nalika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trong khi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

போது
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वेळ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Süre
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mentre il
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

podczas
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

в той час
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

în timp ce
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενώ η
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

while
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the while

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE WHILE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the while

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE WHILE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the while.
1
Don Ameche
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
2
Phil Anselmo
I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.
3
Brian Blessed
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
4
Israel Broussard
Every once in the while I'll watch 'Duck Dynasty' and 'Kim & Kourtney Take Miami,' but outside of that, I don't really watch TV. Also, I don't text anybody, I'm hardly on Twitter or Instagram, and I'm very closed off. I'm kind of a hermit.
5
Frederick William Faber
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
6
Henry Giroux
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
7
Ken Jeong
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.
8
Tom Lehrer
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
9
Thomas Malory
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.
10
Joel McHale
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE WHILE»

Discover the use of the while in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the while and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes ...
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South—from the bombings, riots and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.
Carolyn Maull McKinstry, 2011
2
While I Was Gone
Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered.
Sue Miller, 2008
3
PHP Programming with MySQL: The Web Technologies Series
96 One of the simplest types of loop statements is the while statement, which repeats a statement or series of statements as long as a given conditional expression evaluates to TRUE. The syntax for the while statement is as follows: while ...
Don Gosselin, Diana Kokoska, Robert Easterbrooks, 2010
4
C# for Programmers
6.5 do... while Repetition Statement The do ...while repetition statement is similar to the while statement. In the while, the application tests the loop-continuation condition at the beginning of the loop, before ex- ecuting the loop's body.
Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, 2005
5
LabView: Advanced Programming Techniques, Second Edition
Numeric Conditional Terminal FIGURE 1.36 1.7.1.4 While Loop The While loop is an iteration construct that executes until a predetermined Boolean value is passed to its conditional terminal. The conditional terminal is located in the lower  ...
Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, Matt Nawrocki, 2006
6
C++ for Engineers and Scientists
The while statement is then entered, and the expression is evaluated for the first time. Because the value of count is less than or equal to 10, the expression is true , and the compound statement is executed. The first statement in the compound ...
Gary Bronson, 2009
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An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++: With ...
The while-loop is ideal for this situation if we terminate entering the text by a carriage return. Each character that is typed in is tested against the carriage return escape sequence character ' \ r '. If the user has pressed carriage return then the ...
Graham M. Seed, 2001
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While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the ...
41 This dilemma mirrors Sand's own feminist scramble to succeed within a male profession — all the while imposing a difference. Consuelo' s devotion to music as an art form more than as a profession will have an essential bearing on her ...
David A. Powell, 2001
9
Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours
If it hasn't, the while loop iterates. If counter is greater than 10, the break on line 12 ends the while loop, and program execution falls through to line 14 where the results are printed. This program works, but it isn't pretty. This is a good example  ...
Jesse Liberty, 2001
10
While They Were Dying: The Road to Iraq
For the Sink Set, a group of moneyed sophisticates, the distant death and destruction of the 2003 Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on.
Samuel Peter Shaw, 2012
REFERENCE
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