n. | 1. | Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; | |||
2. | That which requires time; labor; pains.
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v. t. | 1. | To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; - usually followed by away. | |||
v. i. | 1. | To loiter. | |||
conj. | 1. | During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; | |||
2. | Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.
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prep. | 1. | Until; till. |
Noun | 1. | while - a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather" |
(programming) | while - The loop construct found in nearly all
imperative programming languages which executes one or more
instructions (the "loop body") repeatedly so long as some
condition evaluates to true. In contrast to a repeat loop,
the loop body will not be executed at all if the condition is
false on entry to the while. For example, in C, a while loop is written while ( where |