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while - noun

  1. A rather short period: bit, space, spell, time. See big.
  2. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain(used in plural), strain, striving, struggle, trouble. Informal elbow grease. See work.

while - verb

  1. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work. dawdle(away), fiddle away, idle(away), kill, trifle away, waste, wile(away). See industrious.