Dunno is listening to you
while [ while ]
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1. A period of time.
Yet all the while they know where they are and where they are going!
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2. (a while) For some time.
Again the industry cooled its heels a while and then brought back the same plan.
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3. (the while) At the same time; meanwhile.
he starts to draw, talking the while
4. During the time that.
beseeching him, the while his hand she wrung
Conjunction
1. During the time that; at the same time as.
nothing much changed while he was away
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2. Whereas (indicating a contrast)
The sky was almost black, while the trees and shrubs where all frosty pink.
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3. In spite of the fact that; although.
Thus while we can start with Waltz, we certainly do not want to stop with him.
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Relative adverb
1. During which.
There's a moment's freezing silence while her eyebrows contract like thunder.
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Verb
1. Pass time in a leisurely manner.
When not in school, the troupe whiles away its time at Arnold's, the local drive-in diner.
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Preposition
1. Until.
father will be happy while dinner time
Origin
1. Old English hwīl ‘period of time’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wijl, German Weile; the conjunction is an abbreviation of Old English thā hwīle the ‘the while that’.
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