wait
wait.01 - wait, delay movement or action
WAIT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'wait' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'remain' and 'exist' (so says verbnet). Member of Vncls exist-47.1-1. (from wait.01-v)WAITING-N NOTES: (from waiting.01-n)
Aliases:
wait (v.)
waiting (n.)
waiting (n.)
Roles:
ARG1-PPT: wait-er (not waiter, that's the other sense)
ARG2-CAU: thing waited for
ARGM-TMP: period of time waited through
ARG2-CAU: thing waited for
ARGM-TMP: period of time waited through
time period
The TreasuryARG1
mayARGM-MOD
waitrel
until Monday or TuesdayARGM-TMP
.waiting for Godot (you saw that coming, didn't you?)
That permits
themARG1
to waitrel
for prices to riseARG2
.wait.02 - serve tables
WAIT-V NOTES: (from wait.02-v)WAITING-N NOTES: (from waiting.02-n)
Aliases:
waiting (n.)
wait (v.)
wait (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: waiter
ARG1-PPT: table
ARG1-PPT: table
ARG0 and ARG1
" They probably thought
their old fogey of a bossARG0
had just come to waitrel
on themARG1
! "wait_out
wait_out.03 - wait out: endure, outlast, enduring, lasting
WAIT_OUT-V NOTES: (from wait.03-v)WAITING_OUT-N NOTES: (from waiting.03-n)
Aliases:
waiting_out (n.)
wait_out (v.)
wait_out (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: thing lasting longer
ARG1-PPT: thing lasting shorter
ARG1-PPT: thing lasting shorter
us. 'wait it out'
As the strike enters its 15th day today , some members are getting nervous , the spokesman conceded , but
the majority of the 55,000 MachinistsARG0
are prepared to `` waitrel
itARG1
outrel
as long as it takesARGM-TMP
. ''