WHILST

Definition: WHILST

WHILST

Adverb

1. While.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WHILST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Whilst \Whilst\, adverb. [From Whiles; compare to Amongst.]. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Time	Adverb: while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, from hour to hour; hourly, always; for a time, for a season;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You will be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) I've only seen the one. I was able to examine the body whilst the police were taking witness arias (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Well, he can do that whilst your away, can't he (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) I'm trying to make an intelligent film about murder, whilst actually doing the murders (The Last Horror Movie; writing credit: James Handel; Julian Richards) The pain whilst I am cutting through the outer layers of skin will not be unendurable (Behind the Mask; writing credit: Jo Swerling)
Lyrics	Whilst trampling on a flower (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Narrative of William Hayden, containing a faithful account of his travels for a number of years, whilst a slave, in the South. (American Biography Series) (reference) The Annals of 100 Squadron : being a record of the war activities of the pioneer night bombing squadron in France during the period March 1917 to November 11th 1918, including its operations against German towns whilst serving in the independent force of (reference) When to call the doctor - what to do whilst waiting (reference) Whilst Thy Tower Crumbles (reference) Whilst time is burning : a report on education for development (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings [GOLD CD] (reference) Whilst Climbing Thieves Vie for Attention (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Confucius	Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Edmund Burke	The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
	Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Plutarch	All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Woodrow Wilson	Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Secondly, As to his second, An inferior cannot punish a superior; that is true, generally speaking, whilst he is his superior. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	And no sneaky knocking down Mr. Dent's house whilst he's away, alright
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Poor prognostic indicators include a plasma lactate of greater than 4.0 mmol/L or a cardiac index of less than 2.2 L/min/m2 Whilst pulmonary edema and pleural effusions are common, multiorgan dysfunction syndrome is rarely seen. However, HPS patients sometimes have mildly impaired renal function. (references)
Business		Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu Natal have the highest ratios, whilst the Western Cape has the lowest. (references)
		End-users in Argentina, whilst very concerned about prices and financing, are also very demanding. (references)
		Whilst technology advances continue, the shortage of skilled operators, both in South Africa and throughout the world, is having a negative impact on progress. (references)
Economic History	Zambia	Government is to divest its entire shareholding of 24% whilst the private shareholding will also be offering shares for sale. (references)
	Botswana	Currently the SMME policy and the Local Procurement Program use the turnover scale to determine project parameters, whilst the FAP uses the investment scaling to define into which category projects fall. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The lives of a number of valuable citizens have thus been sacrificed, and some of them under circumstances peculiarly shocking, whilst others have been carried into a deplorable captivity.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Previous, however, to this period we had not been unaware of the danger to which our peace would be perpetually exposed whilst so important a key to the commerce of the Western country remained under foreign power.
James Madison	1809-1817	Whilst other portions of mankind are laboring under the distresses of war or struggling with adversity in other forms, the United States are in the tranquil enjoyment of prosperous and honorable peace.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Official information of the exchange of ratifications in the United States reached Paris whilst the Chambers were in session.
James Buchanan	1857-1861	I shall now proceed to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, whilst humbly invoking the blessing of Divine Providence on this great people.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"WHILST" is generally used as a conjunction (subordinating) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WHILST" is used about 5,833 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Conjunction (subordinating)	100%	5,833	1,669

Expression using "WHILST": The whilst. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "WHILST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		vir (across from, against, during, for, in exchange for, in order to, opposed, opposed to, opposite, per, to, toward, towards, upon, whereas, while), tydens (during, for, whereas, while), terwyl (during, for, whereas, while), gedurende (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Albanian		ndërsa (as, meantime, meanwhile, whereas, while, whiles), gjersa (during, for, till, until, whereas, while), gjatë (alone, along, by, down, during, for, in the course of, in the midst of, in the progress of, lengthwise, long, over, pending, through, throughout, whereas, while), duke (during, for, whereas, while), derisa (as far as, during, for, till, until, whereas, while). (various references)

Arabic		‏في حين (whereas, while), ‏بينما (however, nevertheless, while). (various references)

Bulgarian		докато (against, as long as, so long as, till, until, when, whereas, while, whiles). (various references)

Czech		zatímco (whereas, while), kdežto (whereas, while). (various references)

Danish		imitlertid (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Dutch		staande (during, for, whereas, while), onder (among, below, beneath, between, downstairs, during, for, under, underneath, whereas, while), gedurende (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Esperanto		dum (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Faeroese		um (about, beyond, by, concerning, during, for, if, on, past, provided that, straight past, upon, whereas, while), meðan (during, for, whereas, while), í (a, during, for, in, inside, into, on, per, whereas, while, within). (various references)

Finnish		aikana (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

French		tandis que (whereas, while), pendant que (whereas, while), pendant (whereas, while), durant (whereas, while). (various references)

Frisian		wylst (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

German		während (as, during, for, over, throughout, when, whereas, while). (various references)

Greek		ενώ (unite, whereas, while, whiles). (various references)

Hawaiian		gjersa (during, for, till, until, whereas, while), gjatë (during, for, long, whereas, while), duke (during, for, whereas, while), derisa (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Hebrew		בעוד ש- (when, whereas, while). (various references)

Hungarian		míg (as, as long as, during, for, so long as, till, until, whereas, while). (various references)

Icelandic		meðan (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Irish		ar feadh (during, while). (various references)

Italian		durante (during, for, in, over, pending, through, whereas, while). (various references)

Korean		하는 동안. (various references)

Papiamen		miéntras (during, for, whereas, while), durante (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Pig Latin		ilstwhay.(various references)

Polish		podczas (during, for, whereas, while), gdy (as, during, for, when, whereas, while). (various references)

Portuguese		durante (during, for, in, long, over, pending, per, under, while). (various references)

Romanian		în timp ce (and, as, during, for, when, whereas, while). (various references)

Russian		пока (as long as, as yet, bye, bye bye, bye-bye, cheerio, during, for, for the time being, pro tempore, so far, so long as, till, until the time at which, whereas, while, whiles). (various references)

Scottish		ré (duration of time, during, for, lifetime;, nf.ind. the moon, season, space of time, the moon, time, whereas, while). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dok (as, dock, until, while, whiles). (various references)

Spanish		mientras (as, meantime, meanwhile, whereas, while). (various references)

Sranan		di (during, for, whereas, while). (various references)

Swedish		medans, medan (as, even as, while). (various references)

Turkish		zaman (bout, cycle, date, day, father time, hour, sands, season, tense, time, when, while), süresince (along, throughout), sırasında (in the course of, pending), rağmen (after all, altho, although, as, but what, but yet, considering, despite, even though, for all, in despite of, in spite of, notwithstanding, spite of), oysa (but, however, whereas), -irken (as), -iken, -dığı halde (notwithstanding). (various references)

Ukrainian		у той час, як (as, while), хоч (albeit, although, as, notwithstanding, though, whereas, while), тоді як (whereas, while), коли (as, if, in case, now, when, while), а також (while), поки (so far, so long as, while), доки (while), до того ж (also, besides, over and above, while). (various references)

Welsh		wrth (as, at, because, beside, by, during, for, how, like, near to, next to, since, such a, such as, to, what a, whereas, while, with). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Job Chapter 8, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Eti on epi rizhV kai ou mh qerisqh pro tou piein pasa botanh ouci xhrainetai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Cum adhuc sit in flore nec carpatur manu ante omnes herbas arescit
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whanne yit it be in flour, and be it not taken with hond, beforn alle erbis it waxeth drie.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Job Chapter 8, Verse 12
Albanian	Ndërsa është ende i gjelbër, pa qenë prerë, ai thahet para çdo bari tjetër.
Cebuano	Sa diha nga lunhaw pa kini ug dili pinutol, Kini malaya una sa ubang kabunglayonan.
Croatian	Zeleni se sva, al' i nekošena usahne prije svake druge trave.
Danish	Endnu i Grøde, uden at høstes, visner det før alt andet Græs.
Dutch	Als het nog in zijn groenigheid is, hoewel het niet afgesneden wordt, nochtans verdort het voor alle gras.
Finnish	Vielä vihreänä ollessaan, ennenaikaisena leikattavaksi, se kuivettuu ennen kuin mikään muu heinä.
French	Encore vert et sans qu`on le coupe, Il sèche plus vite que toutes les herbes.
German	Sonst wenn's noch in der Blüte ist, ehe es abgehauen wird, verdorrt es vor allem Gras.
Haitian Creole	Nan tan chechrès, li te mèt tou piti, tou vèt, lè lesèk tonbe, anvan menm yo koupe l', premye zèb ki fennen se li menm.
Hungarian	Még gyenge korában, ha fel nem szakasztják is, minden fûnél elébb elszárad.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jika airnya kering, gelagah itu merana, lebih cepat daripada tumbuhan lainnya. Padahal masih segar dan belum saatnya, ia dipotong dan diambil manfaatnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Pada masa lagi hijau, tiada dipotong, maka keringlah ia dahulu dari pada segala tumbuh-tumbuhan yang lain.
Italian	E' ancora verde, non buono per tagliarlo, e inaridisce prima d'ogni altra erba.
Maori	I te mea he kaiota tonu, a kihai i tapahia, kua maroke i mua ake i nga otaota katoa.
Norwegian	Ennu står det friskt og grønt og blir ikke skåret; da visner det før alt annet gress.
Portuguese	Quando está em flor e ainda não cortado, seca-se antes de qualquer outra erva.
Rumanian	Fiind kncq verde wi fqrq sq se taie, ea se usucq mai repede deckt toate ierburile.
Russian	еЭЕ ПО Ч УЧЕЦЕУФЙ УЧПЕК Й ОЕ УТЕЪБО, Б РТЕЦДЕ ЧУСЛПК ФТБЧЩ ЪБУЩИБЕФ.
Spanish	Y estando aún en su tallo, sin ser cortado, se seca antes que toda hierba.
Swedish	Nej, bäst den står grön, ej mogen för skörd, måste den då vissna, före allt annat gräs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"WHILST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehilst, khlist, philosit, whalt, Whassat, whats, whilt, whisht, wholt, willst, wilst. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WHILST" (pronounced wī"lst)
3	-l s t	repulsed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-s-t-w"
	-1 letter: hilts, swith, whist, whits, wilts.
	-2 letters: hilt, hist, hits, list, lits, silt, sith, slit, this, tils, whit, wilt, wish, wist, with, wits.
	-3 letters: his, hit, its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis, wis, wit.
	-4 letters: hi, is, it, li, sh, si, ti.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-s-t-w"
	+1 letter: swithly, whistle.
	+2 letters: whistled, whistler, whistles, whitlows, whittles.
	+3 letters: dishtowel, erstwhile, lowlights, outwhirls, twilights, whelkiest, whiptails, whirliest, whistlers, whistling, whittlers, wholistic, withholds.
	+4 letters: dishtowels, flyweights, lengthwise, lightwoods, lintwhites, nightglows, sweetishly, switchable, wealthiest, weightless, whistlings, whiteflies, whitetails, whitewalls, whittlings.
	+5 letters: millwrights, otherwhiles, playwrights, switchblade, thistledown, washability, wealthiness, whistleable, withdrawals, withholders.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
whilst	5
area holding in over shield whilst wide	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Naturally Twisting" by John W. Thompson Commentary: "Some interesting plants I found one day whilst walking in Fussa City, Japan. A lot of green I know, but please view this in the large version. ."	"The Boy King" by Paul Porteous Commentary: "One of several shots I took of the mask whilst fulfilling a life time ambition to visit the Cairo museum Egypt. Typically the only one that wasn't blurred... (no flash allowed) Some other guy at the time got his wrist seriously slapped when his flash snap"
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WHILST

Definition: WHILST

WHILST

Adverb

Synonyms within Context: WHILST

Time

Crosswords: WHILST

Modern Usage: WHILST

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Confucius

Edmund Burke

Plutarch

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Woodrow Wilson

Historic Usage: WHILST

John Locke

Use in Literature: WHILST

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

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Health

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Zambia

Botswana

Lexicography

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George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

Andrew Jackson

James Buchanan

Usage Frequency: WHILST

Expression: WHILST

Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHILST

whilst

area holding in over shield whilst wide

Modern Translation: WHILST

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Arabic

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Danish

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