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Definition: Expect |
ExpectVerb1. Regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow". 2. Consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons". 3. Look forward to the probably occurrence of: "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted". 4. Consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed". 5. Be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child". 6. Look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in March". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "expect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Anticipate, Expect. "The arrival of the President was hourly anticipated" is pompous. Use expected. Usage: Expect. Few words are more frequently incorrectly used than expect. "I expect you went to town yesterday," "I expect you will hear from me to-morrow," "I expect the train has arrived," represent some of the uses to which this word is often put. Expect refers wholly to the future, and should not refer to present or past events; as, "I expect you to write me from Liverpool." "John expects to see his father to-morrow." Among the expressions that can most readily and appropriately be substituted for expect are suspect, suppose, think, believe, presume, daresay. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: ExpectSynonyms: anticipate (v), ask (v), await (v), bear (v), carry (v), gestate (v), look (v), require (v), wait (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expectance | Verb: expect; not be surprised, not wonder; nil admirari, make nothing of. |
Expectation | Verb: expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder; at, not wonder if. |
Lead one to expect; (predict); have in store for; (destiny). | |
Foresight | Anticipate; expect; be beforehand; (early); predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout; (vigilance); forewarn. |
Hope | Presume; promise oneself; expect; (look forward to). |
Inexpectation | Verb: not expect; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon. |
Phrase: little did one think, little did one expect; nobody would ever suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect; who would have thought? it beats the Dutch. | |
Neglect | Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet. |
Prediction | Hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor. |
Probability | Think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect; count upon; (believe). |
Phrase: the chances, the odds are; appearances are in favor of, chances are in favor of; there is reason to believe, there is reason to think, there is reason to expect; I dare say; all Lombard Street to a China orange. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, just don't expect Oz to pay for the limo (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) What did you expect, Harry (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) I expect to be well paid (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) | |
Lyrics | Never expect you to get down (Everybody Doesn't; performing artist: Amanda) In your life, expect some trouble ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin) So don't expect me just to walk out of the door (Holding Her and Loving You; performing artist: Clay Walker) What did you expect to find (Hemorrhage (in my hands); performing artist: Fuel) And just expect me to be free (I Will Survive; performing artist: GLORIA GAYNOR) | |
Clever | Borrow money from a pessimist, they don't expect it back. (references; author: unknown) You can't train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. (references; author: unknown) Dedication is not what others expect of you; it is what you can give to others. (references; author: unknown) A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older? (references; author: unknown) | |
Song Titles | Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend (performing artist: Lobo) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | How Do You Expect Your Kid To Keep His Nose Clean If You Don't? : If Parents Stop, Kids Won't Start. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Child breathes through the mouth -- where do they expect him to breathe through? his ear?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | And they expect him to run!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Some folks even expect magic!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "What do they expect us to do - listen to the kids pray at home?" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Dearest Annie,-- to-morrow we move on toward Santiago where we expect a hard battle". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vernon Evans and family of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana, Highway 10. Leaving the grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon and Washington. Expect to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Make about two hund. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A family from the southern part of Texas occupies this tent. Husband works at Fort Bragg, but they expect to move on soon. In a settlement near Manchester, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Worker from Fort Bragg and his family living in an old streetcar. He is building for their "new home." Came a hundred miles for this job and expect to move on soon. Near Manchester, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I am telling you--On June 28th I expect you to enlist in the army of war savers to back up my army of fighters / James Montgomery Flagg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Kitty food" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "This little bird fell out of it's nest about 2 days ago. It's mother is still feeding it so I have told my kids they can't rescue it. Every morning I expect it to have not survived the night. Today we spent about an hour chasing it around the neighborhood" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Hamilton | I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. |
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle | A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. |
Cervantes | They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. |
Francis Bacon | They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. |
George Meredith | I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. |
John Ruskin | When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. |
William Blake | Expect poison from standing water. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To tell people they may provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative, when by oppression, artifice, or being delivered over to a foreign power, their old one is gone, is only to tell them, they may expect relief when it is too late, and the evil is past cure. (Second Treatise of Government) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I did not expect, when I wrote the Preface to Vol. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And he could expect no recompense |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In the pursuit of which by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Yet even they expect to go to heaven at last |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A girl born in 1990 can expect to live nearly 79 years. (references) | |
Usually, we expect to recover quickly from an infection. (references) | ||
Scientists expect these investigations to help resolve the issue. (references) | ||
Business | Distributors expect 45 to 60 days of credit. (references) | |
Experts expect that 2000/2001 will be recovery years for the industry. (references) | ||
Industry experts expect up to 60% of the IPC market to be derived from this segment. (references) | ||
Children | Afghanistan | An UNICEF study reported that the majority of children is highly traumatized and expect to die before reaching adulthood. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Brunei | Non-Muslims who proselytize may expect to be arrested or detained, and possibly held without charges for an extended period of time. (references) |
Pakistan | Journalists working in remote areas can expect more difficulties from local authorities and influential individuals than their urban counterparts. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Good customers may expect credit of up to three months. (references) |
Thailand | The end-user can expect an immediate response to inquiries. (references) | |
Chile | Both countries expect to complete the agreement by late 2001. (references) | |
Human Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | In addition, according to the report, a prisoner could expect to be stabbed sometime during his imprisonment. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Although the ICTY and other international experts do not expect to find many new mass graves, smaller gravesites remained throughout Kosovo. (references) | |
Hungary | According to a report by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) in 2000, persons detained by police complained of abuse, but very few file official complaints because they do not expect positive results and fear that the complaint may affect their cases adversely. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | In many cases, adoptive parents do not treat the adoptees as full family members and expect them to work in the households or family businesses rather than attend school. (references) |
Mauritania | A number of accounts suggest that some members of the long-dominant White Moor community, which traditionally enslaved darker skinned groups, may continue to expect or desire servitude on the part of members of the generally darker-skinned Black Moors and southern ethnic groups, and that such attitudes may impede efforts to build a nondiscriminatory society and to eliminate the vestiges of slavery and consequences of slavery, goals to which both the Government and major opposition parties are committed. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malaysia | Analysts expect the economy to grow from 1 to 3 percent during the year. (references) |
Trade | Kuwait | Kuwaiti banks have a global perspective and expect their foreign correspondents to work with them at that level. (references) |
Argentina | The specific duties vary according to the product; however, one should expect to pay around 35 percent in import tariffs. (references) | |
Turkey | However, the sector plays less of a financial intermediary role than one would expect in an economy of Turkey's size and sophistication. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | Spaniards expect a personal relationship with suppliers. (references) |
Nepal | Convicted offenders can expect jail sentences and fines. (references) | |
Egypt | Don't expect to breeze in for a week and leave with a contract. (references) | |
Women | Vietnam | Parents often expect an eldest daughter to assume responsibility for a significant part of the family's finances. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The Mutawwa'in generally expect women from Arab countries, and other countries in Asia and Africa to comply more fully with Saudi customs of dress than they do Western women; nonetheless, in recent years they have instructed Western women to wear the abaya and cover their hair and face. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burma | Although workers may in principle remove themselves from hazardous conditions, in practice many workers cannot expect to retain their jobs if they do so. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. |
John Ashcroft | I don't want to provide a specific time during which he'll be in the United States, but I expect him to be here shortly. He is the subject of a complaint filed in the eastern district of Virginia and he will be brought to justice. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to expect. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Every State can not expect to shape the measures of the General Government to suit its own particular interests. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In formulating policies, as in preparing budgetary estimates, the Nation and the Congress have the right to expect the President to adjust and coordinate the views of the various departments and agencies to form a unified program. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For if we cannot fulfill our own ideals here, we cannot expect others to accept them. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I've got bad news, and I don't expect much, if any, applause. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | President Yeltsin's early response has been very positive, and I expect our talks at Camp David to be fruitful. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | To improve the state of our Union, we must ask more of ourselves, we must expect more of each other, and we must face our challenges together. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We're raising the bar, and we expect success. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Expect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 65.09% of the time. "Expect" is used about 10,575 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 65.09% | 6,883 | 1,409 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 34.89% | 3,689 | 2,631 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,575 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "expect": expect approach clearance at ♦ expect of ♦ expect the worst ♦ lead one to expect ♦ nobody would ever expect ♦ not expect ♦ there is reason to expect. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "expect": half-expect. | |
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| 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 "expect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wag vir (abide, await, wait, wait for), wag (abide, await, wait, wait for), verwag (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Albanian | supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), shpresoj (dream, hope, look forward to, plan, trust), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween). (various references) | |
Arabic | تنتظر مولودا, توقع (anticipate, anticipation, await, contemplate, expectancy, expectation, foresee, look forward to, presage, wait), ترقب (await, carry on, expectancy, expectation, looking forward, wait), إعتمد (bank on, build, count on, depend, lean, reckon, reckon on, rely, repose, trustee), أمل (digest, expectancy, hope, prospect, trust). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очаквам (abide, anticipate, apprehend, await, contemplate, envisage, hope, wait, watch, ween), надявам се (hope, rest, ween), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween). (various references) | |
Catalan | esperar (abide, await, foresee, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Chinese | 預期 (expected), 期望 (Anticipate, Anticipated, Anticipating, Expectation, Expected, Expecting), 望 (hope, look towards, to gaze, to visit, towards). (various references) | |
Czech | očekáván, oèekávat (anticipate, await, be expecting, look forward to, think, visualize), myslet (think), domnívat se (assume, conjecture, feel, guess, hold, judge, opine, presume, suppose, think). (various references) | |
Danish | forvente (abide, advert, await, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for). (various references) | |
Dutch | wachten (abide, await, wait, wait for), te wachten staan (abide, await, wait, wait for), afhalen (abide, await, deduct, meet, pick up, string, take along, take away, take up, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Esperanto | atendi (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vænta (abide, await, wait, wait for), bíða (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Farsi | منتظربودن (Antedate, Await), چشم داشتن , حامله بودن , انتظارداشتن (Attend, Await, Envisage, Hope). (various references) | |
Finnish | odottaa ennakolta (anticipate), odottaa (abide, await, foresee, hope, look forward, wait, wait expect, wait for). (various references) | |
French | attendre. (various references) | |
Frisian | wachtsje (abide, await, wait, wait for), ferwachtsje (abide, await, wait, wait for), biidzje (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
German | erwarten (abide, abode, anticipate, await, bargain for, look for, to anticipate, to await, to bide, to estimate, to expect, visualize, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Greek | προσδοκώ (anticipate), αναμένω (abide, await, stand by, wait). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליחל (hope, look forward to, wait). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vár (abide, await, castle, fastness, fortress, hang fire, hold, stronghold, time and tide wait for no man, to await, to hang fire, to tend, to wait, to wait for, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vænta (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengharapkan (anticipate, count on, hope). (various references) | |
Irish | fan le (abide, await, wait for), fair (abide, await, wait for, watch; expect). (various references) | |
Italian | aspettare (abide, advert, await, be looking forward, bide, pay, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 期す (to expect, to look forward to), 思い設ける (to anticipate, to expect), 流石 (adept, as one would expect, clever, expectations, good), 待設ける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), 待ち設ける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), 待ち受ける (to await, to expect). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもいもうける (to anticipate, to expect), きす (garfish, silaginoid, to expect, to look forward to), まちうける (to await, to expect), まちもうける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), さすが (adept, as one would expect, clever, expectations, good). (various references) | |
Korean | 예기하십시요 (Anticipate). (various references) | |
Malay | tunggu (abide, await, wait, wait for), menunggu (abide, await, wait, wait for), mengharapkan (abide, await, foresee, wait, wait for), harapkan (abide, await, foresee, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Manx | jerkal. (various references) | |
Maya | pa'at (to expect). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forvente (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Papiamen | warda (abide, await, wait, wait for), spera (abide, await, hope, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | expectay.(various references) | |
Polish | czekać (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Portuguese | esperar (abide, anticipate, await, bide, hang on, hope, look forward, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Romanian | aştepta (abide, await, bide, book, give time to, lie by for, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Russian | ожидать (anticipate, await, awaited, awaits, bargain for, be waiting, waited, watch for). (various references) | |
Scottish | feith (abide, await, serve, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | očekivati (anticipate, await, look for, watch). (various references) | |
Spanish | esperar (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, due, foresee, hang about, hang around, hang on, hold off, hold on, hope, look, look for, look out for, stand about, stand around, stay, stay for, Tarry, think, trust, wait, wait about, wait around, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Swedish | vänta (abide, await, be expecting, be waiting, keep, Tarry, wait, wait for), vänta sig (abide, anticipate, await, look for, wait, wait for), förvänta (anticipating, look forward to). (various references) | |
Tagalog | maghintáy (abide, await, wait, wait for), hintayín (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Thai | คาดว่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, look forward to, mark time, stand by, stay, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | oslamak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сподіватися (anticipate, hope, look for, rely, trust), розраховувати (bank, bargain on, calculate, depend), чекати (abide, attend, await, bargain for, look forward, wait). (various references) | |
Welsh | erfyn (appeal, beg, beseech, implore, pray), disgwyl am (await, wait for), disgwyl (anticipate, bide, look, wait). (various references) | |
Yucatec | pa'tik (abide, await, wait, wait for), pa'tal (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Zulu | -linda (abide, await, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | expecta, expectabam, expectabamus, expectabant, expectabat, expectabis, expectabitis, expectabo, expectabunt, expectamus, expectans, expectant, expectante, expectantem, expectantes, expectantesque, expectantibus, expectantium, expectare, expectarent, expectaret, expectat, expectate, expectatis, expectaverunt, expectavi, expectavimus, expectavit, expectavitque, expectemus, expectet, expecto, exspecto, praestolabar, praestolabor, praestolantes, praestolantis, praestolantur, praestolari, praestolatur, reexpecta, specto. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "expect": expectable, expectably, expectance, expectances, expectancies, expectancy, expectant, expectantly, expectants, expectation, expectational, expectations, expectative, expected, expectedly, expectedness, expectednesses, expecting, expectorant, expectorants, expectorate, expectorated, expectorates, expectorating, expectoration, expectorations, expects. (additional references) | |
Words containing "expect": overexpectation, overexpectations, unexpected, unexpectedly, unexpectedness, unexpectednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Expect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espect, excpect, execpt, exept, expat, expec, Expecta, expecxt, expek, expent, expicit, exspect, exspecto, extech. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "expect" (pronounced ikspe"kt) |
| 5 | -s p e" k t | disrespect, inspect, reinspect, respect, suspect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, collect, confect, connect, correct, decked, deflect, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, dissect, effect, eject, elect, erect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inflect, inject, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, neglect, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, recollect, reconnect, redirect, reelect, reflect, reject, resurrect, sect, select, subject, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: except. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-p-t-x" | |
-2 letters: cepe, cete, exec. | |
-3 letters: cee, cep, pec, pee, pet, tee. | |
-4 letters: et, ex, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-p-t-x" | |
+1 letter: excepts, excerpt, expects. | |
+2 letters: excepted, excerpts, expected. | |
+3 letters: excepting, exception, exceptive, excerpted, excerpter, excerptor, excipient, exculpate, expectant, expecting, explicate. | |
+4 letters: ciphertext, complexest, epexegetic, exceptions, excerpters, excerpting, excerption, excerptors, excipients, exculpated, exculpates, expectable, expectably, expectance, expectancy, expectants, expectedly, explicated, explicates, unexpected. | |
+5 letters: cataplexies, ciphertexts, exceptional, excerptions, expectances, expectantly, expectation, expectative, expectorant, expectorate, explicative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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