Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of.
- intransitive verb To consider likely or certain.
- intransitive verb To consider reasonable or due.
- intransitive verb To consider obligatory; require.
- intransitive verb Informal To presume; suppose.
- intransitive verb To be pregnant. Used in progressive tenses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Expectation.
- To look for; wait for; await
- To look for with anticipation; believe in the occurrence or the coming of; await as likely to happen or to appear.
- To reckon upon, as something to be done, granted, or yielded; desire with confidence or assurance: as, to
expect obedience or aid; I shall expect to find that job finished by Saturday; you are expected to be quiet. - To count upon in relation to something; trust or rely upon to do or act in some specified way; require or call upon expectantly: as, I expect you to obey, or to perform a task.
- To suppose; reckon; conclude: applied to things past or present as well as to things future: as, I expect he went to town yesterday.
- To wait; stay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To wait; to stay.
- noun obsolete Expectation.
- transitive verb obsolete To wait for; to await.
- transitive verb To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without,
that ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previousapprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; toanticipate ; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that). - verb To
consider obligatory orrequired . - verb To consider reasonably
due . - verb to be pregnant, to consider a baby due
- verb obsolete To
wait for; toawait .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be pregnant with
- verb regard something as probable or likely
- verb consider reasonable or due
- verb look forward to the birth of a child
- verb look forward to the probable occurrence of
- verb consider obligatory; request and expect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I'm still too young to know the word expect has that letter in it.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
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In fact, I don't even know what letters of the alphabet are needed to make the word expect, and I don't really care because I'm not supposed to learn that word and lots of others like it until I'm nice and ready or a teacher makes me.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
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I'll tell you my expectation for stock market returns, but first I want to spell out what the word "expect" means.
unknown title 2011
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What would anyone with a brain expect from a Commie bastard!
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To give you a feel for what you can expect from a VM, I've been able to do the following with it in the last couple days:
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The basic theme of many reviews seemed to be ‘fun, but fluffy,’ and, really, what else do you expect from a movie that originated in a series of short parody sketches?
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What do you expect from the liberal Democrat thought process that does not have any conservative morals?
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This movie sounds like utter crap but it will be big with teens. okayflint this guy has helmed nothing but classics and that's what I come to expect from a movie with the title "Shark Night 3D".
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Al Iguana said ... off topic slightly, but THIS is more like what I'd expect from a live blogger!
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Google chrome lacks SO many basic features of what you expect from a browser today.
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