English | German | Russian | Czech
A1

while English

Meaning while meaning

What does while mean?
Definitions in simple English

while

If mathx/math happens while mathy/math happens, they happen at the same time. He fell asleep while sitting at his desk.

while

A while is a short time. After a while I will stop working and cook food for us.

while

To pass time. On Sundays, I like to while away the time by reading.

while

(= piece, spell, patch) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition he was here for a little while I need to rest for a piece a spell of good weather a patch of bad weather

Synonyms while synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as while?

Topics while topics

What do people use while to talk about?

Conjugation while conjugation

How do you conjugate while?

while · verb

Examples while examples

How do I use while in a sentence?

Simple sentences

While I understand what you say, I can't agree with you.
Please refrain from smoking, while the non-smoking signs are on.
I don't mind waiting for a while.
Wait here for a while.
I'll look after your child while you are away.
A Mr Jones came while you were out.
Strike while the iron is hot.
My sister took care of the dog while I was away.
I cut myself while shaving.
He hesitated for a while.
He visited Japan while he was President.
Don't cut in while we're talking.
While doing the wash she found a condom in the back pocket of her son's pants.
Seriously though, episode 21 made me almost cry while laughing.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
I read a book while eating.
I have to do laundry while it's still sunny.
While eating a pizza he was annoying his sister.
While there's life, there's hope.
He learned the news while reading the newspaper.
You are working too hard. Take it easy for a while.
Who took care of the dog while you were away?
Don't smoke while you are on duty.
You should have told him about it while he was here.
You had better not smoke while on duty.
Would you look after my children while I am away on vacation?
I fell asleep while studying at my desk.
We were cut off while talking on the telephone.
We agreed to refrain from smoking while we are at work.

Movie subtitles

In a little while.
I thought that it would be a little while longer before I could make my move.
While we are here, call me Governor-General, Vice-Governor Euphemia.
It cannot be dismissed that this novel idea. is connected to the princess being a student a short while ago.
As England's population growth accelerated in the late 1 7th century, trade brought an influx of new nutrients like potatoes and sugar, while colonisation allowed the emigration of surplus people.
They got the coffee house while the Chinese got the opium den.
And while I show them, I'll show me!
While you were trying to show me that, that Scripture isn't that important!
While it's been a spectacular ride in the last decade to find these planets, most of them are giant planets.
I've been a lone wolf for a while, you know?
I've been on my own for a while.
I mean, it, obviously, it ripped the deer while it was standing here.
I haven't seen him that angry in quite a long while.
There was just a circumstance for a short while.
Kapteyn would measure the plates, while Gill continued ro collect new ones.
He threw himself into everything, while I, the good Jesuit student, weighed the pros and cons for so long, I'd never decide.
Stay a while.
The African chasseurs went around the smalah to take it from the rear while Colonel Yusuf launched a frontal attack.
While us Muslims worship Allah.
While you were having fun in Paris, - I went through hell here!
They make promises here, while back in Algiers.
After a while, the cold gets to you.
You could be eating braised lamb with a wild-mushroom ragout while this place becomes a laundromat for your money.
I'll make it worth your while.
How many other guys has she gotten naked for while you were together?
They get to live in this castle while their factories are poisoning everyone's water.
And, oh, have you ever, like, held a girl's hand while eating a PBJ?
Now, every once in a while, a kid gets busted.
It might take me a while, but I'll get it to you.
You should think about getting out of the game for a while.
While he was gone, I kept hoping Nick would forgive him and think about what I'd said, but. it seemed like his mind was made up.
But every once in a while, things do go the right way.
Just let him continue being anxious for a while. Now he should be able to see that we are teasing Lee Jae Sin. The Royal Committee, in accordance with Article 14 Section 2 of the Royal Family Act, hereby selects Princess Lee Jae Sin for inheritance.
But. I've already said that three points is based on skill while the other seven is based on luck.
Comrade Eun Si Gyeong has died while on a mission.
Around next month, I'm going to be leaving for China for several years, so the timing is just right. While I was traveling abroad, though it's not as much as you, I managed to make some money, too.
Do you want to bargain over the building price? While we're eating.

News and current affairs

For a short while, many prominent people - Albert Einstein, for one - believed that only a world government would be able to ensure global peace.
While terrorism is fought in the name of democracy, the fight has in fact led to a distinct weakening of democracy, owing to official legislation and popular angst.
The dilemma facing US policymakers is how to stimulate growth while lowering the level of total debt.
Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.
While appearing to own the Queen's English, Eban was not to the manor born: he came from the extremely modest fringes of Anglo-Jewry.
They could make a real contribution to cleaner, more productive, and efficient farming and land use, while addressing social needs.
Helping the poor with today's technologies, while investing in future improved technologies, is the optimum division of labor.
While this system does provide incentives for certain kinds of research by making innovation profitable, it allows drug companies to drive up prices, and the incentives do not necessarily correspond to social returns.
The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.
Yet, while the two parties now seem irreconcilable, it is not too late for compromise.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
And, while conspiracy theories are often patently irrational, the questions they address are often healthy, even if the answers are frequently unsourced or just plain wrong.
This would make government services more effective, while helping to catalyze additional development aid from traditional donors and mobilize private-sector resources.
Tailoring financial products for diaspora communities could attract resources for investment, while reinforcing migrants' ties - economic and otherwise - to their home countries.
While the legislation does too little to address America's problem of chronic and rising budget deficits, the damage that it inflicts on the economy in the short term is likely to be limited.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
And, while mistresses abound among the privileged classes, they do not strut publicly by their power-mates' sides.
LONDON - Last month, while in New York City, I happened to be staying in the same hotel as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
So what can be done to shore up global aggregate demand and growth prospects, while preserving the economic openness that has benefited major parts of the developing world so greatly in the past 30 years?

Are you looking for...?