Expect

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expect \Ex*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expected}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Expecting}.] [L. expectatum, to look out for, await,
     expect; ex + out spectare to look at. See {Spectacle}.]
     1. To wait for; to await. [Obs.]
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              Let's in, and there expect their coming. --Shak.
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     2. 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); as, I expect to receive wages; I
        expect that the troops will be defeated. "Good: I will
        expect you." --Shak. "Expecting thy reply." --Shak.
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              The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was
              expected to arrive on the following day. --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: To anticipate; look for; await; hope.
  
     Usage: To {Expect}, {Think}, {Believe}, {Await}. Expect is a
            mental act and has aways a reference to the future, to
            some coming event; as a person expects to die, or he
            expects to survive. Think and believe have reference
            to the past and present, as well as to the future; as
            I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home
            yesterday, that he is he is at home now. There is a
            not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of
            the two; as, I expect the mail has arrived; I expect
            he is at home. This misuse should be avoided. Await is
            a physical or moral act. We await that which, when it
            comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may,
            or may not, interest us personally. See {Anticipate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expect \Ex*pect"\, v. t.
     To wait; to stay. [Obs.] --Sandys.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expect \Ex*pect"\, n.
     Expectation. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expect
       v 1: regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists
            are expecting rain for tomorrow" [syn: {anticipate}]
       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" [syn: {ask}, {require}]
       3: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were
          expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to
          a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: {look},
          {await}, {wait}]
       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" [syn: {have a bun in the oven}, {bear}, {carry}, {gestate}]
       6: look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in
          March"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "expect":
     account as, anticipate, apprehend, approach, aspire to, assume,
     await, bank on, be afraid, be destined, be fated, be imminent,
     be to be, be to come, believe, come, come on, conceive, conclude,
     confide, conjecture, consider, contemplate, count, count on,
     daresay, deduce, deem, demand, desire, divine, draw near, draw on,
     dread, dream, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, face, fancy,
     feel, feel confident, foreknow, foresee, foretell, gather, grant,
     guess, harbor the hope, have a hunch, have an idea,
     have an impression, have an inkling, have in mind, have in view,
     have the idea, hold, hold as, hope, hope against hope,
     hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, imagine, infer,
     judge, keep in view, lean upon, let, let be, lie ahead,
     live in hopes, look, look for, look forward to, look upon as, loom,
     maintain, near, need, nurture the hope, opine, plan, plot, predict,
     prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, project, prophesy,
     provisionally accept, reckon, reckon on, regard, rely on, repute,
     require, rest assured, say, sense, set down as, suppose, surmise,
     suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be,
     think, threaten, trow, trust, understand, view as, wait for, want,
     ween, wish
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  expect
       
           A {Unix} tool written in {Tcl} and a {script
          language} for automating the operation of {interactive}
          applications such as {telnet}, {FTP}, {passwd}, {fsck},
          {rlogin}, {tip}, etc..  Expect can feed input to other
          programs and perform {pattern matching} on their output.  It
          is also useful for testing these applications.  By adding
          {Tk}, you can also wrap interactive applications in {X11}
          {GUI}s.
       
          {Home (http://expect.nist.gov/)}.
       
          ["expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Tasks", Don
          Libes, Comp Sys 4(2), U Cal Press Journals, Nov 1991].
       
          (1997-06-09)