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while | American Dictionary

while
noun[ U ]
us/hwɑɪl, wɑɪl/

whilenoun[U] (LENGTH OF TIME)

a length of time:
He only had to wait a short while.
It was a while before any waiter took their order.
That happened a while ago (= did not happen recently).
I haven’t seen him for a while (= a long time).
She’s getting dressed, and she’ll be ready in just a little while (= soon).
while
conjunction
us/hwɑɪl, wɑɪl/

whileconjunction (DURING)

during the time that, or at the same time as:
I read it while you were drying your hair.
"I’m going to the post office." "While you’re there can you get me some stamps?"

whileconjunction (ALTHOUGH)

despite the fact that; although:
While I know he’s not perfect, I do like him.

whileconjunction (BUT)

compared with the fact that; but:
Tom is very outgoing, while Ken’s shy and quiet.

Examples of while

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This indicator aimed to validate teachers' approach to lesson planning while attempting to link teacher thinking and administrator thinking through a shared discourse.
While there are no particular names by category, crickets are divided into two groups: large, ordinary crickets and non-ordinary.
In line with previous findings, the former group progressed faster in learning to read the visual list while the latter learned the phonetic list faster.
While purely indefinite examples are hard to come by, verbal gerunds do participate in the ambiguity patterns also found for bare nominal gerunds.
These proscriptions, while useful in economics, may obfuscate important psychological phenomena.
Both maps illustrate in great detail the most modern, developed areas and iconic buildings, while the less densely inhabited areas were reduced in size.
While national leaders reluctantly accepted state reform, they steadfastly refused to consider any modification of their own highly centralised political party structures.
While the character was absent, another character removed the object from the location, and replaced it with a different object.
Some participants reported that the threat was current and ongoing, while others did not think it would happen for over 6 months.
Twentythree second elections resulted in a lower effective number of parties, while only seven second elections resulted in a higher effective number of parties.
The former tries to delay some computations while the second drives different computations through a tree of branching paths.
Profit maximization ranked very low in the early and mid group, while it was mentioned more frequently among the late entrants.
Cycles were considered as fixed effects while year was a random effect.
The environments were considered as random variables while the genotypes were treated as fixed variables.
For example, one might grow by 20 per cent, while the other remains constant.
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