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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Malay – menunggu kucing bertanduk ("to wait until a horned cat walks by") Malayalam – കാക്ക മലർന്നു പറക്കും (kākka malarnnu paṟakkuṃ), "[the] crow will fly upside down" [22]

  3. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Time and tide wait for no man; Time flies; Time goes by slowly when your are living intensely; Time is a great healer; Time is money (Only) time will tell 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [10] To each his own

  5. Waiting room - Wikipedia

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    Waiting room for passengers at Udon Thani International Airport, Thailand. A waiting room or waiting hall is a building, or more commonly a part of a building or a room, where people sit or stand until the event or appointment for which they are waiting begins. There are two types of physical waiting room.

  6. Queueing theory - Wikipedia

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    If k denotes the number of jobs in the system (either being serviced or waiting if the queue has a buffer of waiting jobs), then an arrival increases k by 1 and a departure decreases k by 1. The system transitions between values of k by "births" and "deaths", which occur at the arrival rates λ i {\displaystyle \lambda _{i}} and the departure ...

  7. Waiting - Wikipedia

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    Waiting, a 2007 film by Zarina Bhimji Waiting (2015 film) , an Indian drama film starring Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin The Waiting (film) , a 2020 American horror/romance/comedy by F. C. Rabbath

  8. While - Wikipedia

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    "I read a magazine while I was waiting." While can also be legitimately used in the contrastive sense, comparable to the words "although" or "whereas", provided that it is not ambiguous (although some commentators, such as Eric Partridge, have disapproved of such use): "While I like cats, my husband is allergic." "While Sally plays, Sue works."

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.