while

while englannista suomeksi

1. hetki

0. Substantiivi

1. aika

2. use inessive of the second infinitive; kun; aikana preceded by word in genitive; sillä välin / sillä välin kun, sillä aikaa / sillä aikaa kun, samaan aikaan / samaan aikaan kun

3. vaikka, vaikkakin, at the beginning of a clause, contrasting kun taas

4. use inessive of the second infinitive; kun; niin kauan kuin, sillä välin / sillä välin kun, sillä aikaa / sillä aikaa kun

4. Verbi

while englanniksi

1. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.

(ux)

''It’s a long while since anyone lived there, so it’s a ruin now.''

2. (quote-book)

3. (quote-book) when ye are altogether too canny and Whiggish to be company for a gentleman like me.|chapter=22|page=158

4. an uncertain long period of time

5. an uncertain short moment

6. During the same time that.

7. (RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)

8. {{quote-book|en|year=1948|author=McWilliams (journalist)|Carey McWilliams|title=North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States|publisher=J. B. Lippincott Company|page=25

9. (quote-journal)

10. (senseid) Although.

11. {{quote-journal|en|date=September 28 2013|author=Kenan Malik|title=London Is Special, but Not That Special|titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/london-is-special-but-not-that-special.html?ref=opinion|journal=New York Times|accessdate=28 September 2013

12. Until.

13. (quote-book); Walter William Skeat |publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/The_Yorkshire_Archaeological_and_Topogra/9ZdQAQAAIAAJ|passage=To ''dark'' is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens rats mun ha bin darkin whel nu now; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

14. long as|As long as.

15. {{RQ:Watts Logick

16. (non-gloss)

17. (quote-web)

18. {{RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies|Wit at Several Weapons

19. To pass (time) idly.

(syn)

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1839|author=Robert Folkestone Williams|title=The Youth of Shakespeare|url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Youth_of_Shakspeare/yR0tAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22whiling+the+time%22&pg=PA184|page=184

21. (RQ:Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn)

22. To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.

23. To elapse, to pass.

24. (n-g)

25. (l)