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Meaning of "wait up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAIT UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAIT UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wait up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES WAIT UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wait up in the English dictionary

The definition of wait up in the dictionary is to delay going to bed in order to await some event. Other definition of wait up is to halt and pause in order that another person may catch up.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAIT UP

wait
wait on
wait-a-bit
wait-a-while
wait-and-see tactics
wait-listed
Waitangi Day
Waitangi Tribunal
Waite
waiter
waiterage
waiterhood
waitering
waiting
waiting game
waiting list
waiting room
waitingly
waitlist
waitperson

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAIT UP

beat up
camp it up
cut up
eat up
fit up
get up
keep it up
let up
light up
lit up
live it up
mix it up
put up
set up
shut up
sit up
split up
start up
straight up
whoop it up

Synonyms and antonyms of wait up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wait up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAIT UP

Find out the translation of wait up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wait up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wait up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不睡觉地守候
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esperar levantado
570 millions of speakers

English

wait up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर इंतजार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَنْتَظِرُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дожидаться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esperar acordado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপেক্ষা কর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

veiller
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tunggu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aufbleiben für
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寝ないで待つ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자지 않고 기다리다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngenteni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thức đợi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காத்திரு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतीक्षा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bekle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rimanere alzati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czuwać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

не йти спати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a aștepta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιμένω ξύπνιος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wag tot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vänta på
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vente oppe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wait up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAIT UP»

The term «wait up» is regularly used and occupies the 81.769 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAIT UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wait up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wait up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAIT UP»

Discover the use of wait up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wait up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Don't Wait Up
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Don't Wait Up is a British sitcom that aired for six series from 1983 to 1990 on BBC1. It starred Nigel Havers, Tony Britton and Dinah Sheridan, and was written by George Layton.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Rhythmic Notions
Dennis S Martin. Don't Wait Up Don't wait up. I'll be home late. I'm going out tonight. Don't you worry, I'll be fine. I'm going where the lights are bright. Dancing, singing off the wall, Hanging out until last call, Laughing til it hurts, so, don't wait up.
Dennis S Martin
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The Coronation: A New Collection of Music for Choirs and ...
305 35j They that wait, that wait up-on the Lord, They that wait up-on theLord, shallrenewtheirstrengtu;Tlieyshallmonntup with wings as -m- -S- ^S- i — '\ They that wait, that wait up-on theLord, They that wait up-on theLord, shall renew their  ...
Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward, 1872
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Making Business Child's Play
Jerry Seinfeld (the comedian) captures this brilliantly on stage when talking about Halloween: “Wait up you guys, I gotta fix it! Wait up! Wait up!' That's what kids say, they don't say wait, they say 'Wait up!' 'Cause when you are little, your life is ...
Adam Margolin, 2012
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
Note: The expression does not fully correlate in meaning with the phrase wait up for someone - I . = wait for someone 3: They were able to keep up a steady, decent pace, with only a minimal amount of the usual stop and go that happens when ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2004
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Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook
Asking someone to wait up or to hurry up are common idiomatic ways to say Wait for me! and Hurry faster. This section offers these and other idioms for requesting that someone go more slowly or more quickly. The prepositions up and down ...
Gail Brenner, 2011
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The Aesthetics of Place and the Comedy of Discomfort: Six ...
Safe, vague, and detached, it is not extraordinarily funny: "Wait up!" That's what kids say. They don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up! Hey, wait up!" 'Cause when you're little, your life is up. The future is up. Everything you want is up. "Wait up!
Heidi R. Moore, 2007
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A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic: Moroccan-English
—Go to bed, don't wait up for me. gir »ir tenfes, ma-tebqa-5 fayeq ka-ttsennani. to wait for - tsenna. I'll wait for you until five o'clock, gadi ntsenna* hetta l-xemsa. **I can hardly wait for the day. lehla yehremni gir ila Seft dak n-nhar. to wait on ...
Richard Slade Harrell, Harvey Sobelman, Thomas Fox, 2004
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Study Package for CAT Online:
... turn around turn down turn down turn in turn in turn into turn off turn on turn on turn on turn out turn out turn out turn out turn over turn up turn up U use up V veer away from W wait on wait up wait up for not sleep because you are Let's wait.
SHARMA
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Wait!: A Full-length Play
But anyways. I come out the house one day on my way down to the theatre. The old man is laying under the front end of a Chevy listening to a ball game. DAD. Wait up here. WENDY. Yeah? DAD. Well, I got this idea. WENDY. What's X WAIT!
Julie Jensen, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAIT UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wait up is used in the context of the following news items.
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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: "Don't Wait Up" for Robert DeLong
It's fitting that Robert DeLong's new song is called "Don't Wait Up." Ever since he dropped his debut album Just Movement in 2013, the wunderkind music master ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Some disabled wait up to 14 years for state help
The KING 5 Investigators found that some families have been waiting for a service for up to 14 years, and that Washington has one of the largest wait lists in the ... «KING5.com, Jun 15»
3
Galway patients wait up to 176 days for physiotherapy appointments
According to the latest HSE figures, patients at Portiuncula Hospital wait an average of 176 days for a routine appointment with a physiotherapist, while urgent ... «Galway Bay FM, May 15»
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Patients 'will be forced to wait ONE MONTH for doctor appointments …
PATIENTS will be forced to wait up to one month for GP appointments in a year's time as doctors struggle to cope with strain on the NHS, a new survey says. «Express.co.uk, May 15»
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VA makes little headway in fight to shorten wait times for medical care
This average of delayed VA appointments compares to the average wait times ... criticized the VA for forcing him to wait up to six months to see a specialist at the ... «Belleville News Democrat, Apr 15»
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Families of the Germanwings crash victims may have to wait up to …
FAMILIES of the Germanwings crash victims may have to wait up to four months for their remains to be identified. The Head of the Criminal Research Institute at ... «Scottish Daily Record, Mar 15»
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Children wait up to 27 months for MRI at Crumlin
Children are having to wait up to 27 months to get an MRI scan in the State's largest paediatric hospital. Staff at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin have ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
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Stroke and seizure patients could wait up to 19 minutes under new …
According to the leaked document, drawn up by the Association of Ambulance ... to relax the maximum ambulance wait for what are known as 'Red 2' incidents. «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
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Opinion analysis: No overtime pay for after-work security check
That ruling and a second one, clearing up a split among lower courts on how courts ... contended that they had to wait up to twenty-five minutes to be searched, ... «SCOTUSblog, Dec 14»
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Historical abuse counselling wait 'up to three years'
Victims of historical sexual abuse are having to wait up to three years for counselling, a charity has claimed. It follows a rise of more than 50% in the number of ... «BBC News, Dec 14»

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