| 词汇 | waiting-room |
| 释义 | waiting room noun[ C ] uk /ˈweɪ.tɪŋ ˌruːm/ us /ˈweɪ.t̬ɪŋ ˌruːm/ a room in a place where people can sit while waiting, as in an airport or a doctor's office等候室;候车室;候诊室 Compare loungenoun ADAM GAULT/SPL/Science Photo Library/GettyImages Parts of buildings: rooms antechamber anteroom atelier attic ballroom dormitory drawing room dressing room efficiency room en suite master bathroom master bedroom meat locker multi-chambered multi-room twin-bedded utility room vestibule wet room workroom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Waiting waiting room | American Dictionarywaiting room noun[ C ] us/ˈweɪ·t̬ɪŋ ˌrum, ˌrʊm/ a room where people can sit while waiting, as in a bus station or a doctor’s office Examples of waiting roomwaiting room In each of the labs, the primary experimental room resembled a waitingroom at a doctor's office. To increase the throughput of patients many are asked to change into a gown and then take a seat in the waitingroom. Instruments were generally administered in the waitingroom by research assistants prior to consultation. Once in the clinic, 75% of patients' time was spent in the examination room, and the remainder was spent in the waitingroom. It was concluded that approaching patients in the waitingroom was the most effective. Generally clients were required to wait one or more hours in the waitingroom, where they volunteered to be interviewed. This involved an almost-daily period sitting in the waitingroom outside his office. The waitingroom is crowded, and some of the people in it seem to be quite perturbed. Four women (3.8%) had to wait an hour or more in the waitingroom. Waitingroom recruitment was more intensive in terms of researcher input but yielded higher numbers, whereas physician referral yielded a higher percentage of eligible participants. Waitingroom walls and display boards have become the location of much health promotion activity, often targeted at particular groups. Mean time for one-way travel was 18.7 minutes; waitingroom time was 16.9 minutes; and exam time was 50.8 minutes. The waitingroom was viewable through a one-way mirror from an observation room. Read a magazine in the waitingroom. Availability of questionnaires in the waitingroom may provide the trigger for the patient to self-assess and seek help. See all examples of waiting room These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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