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Difference between impatience and please

impatience

Definitions

noun

  1. a dislike of anything that causes delay
  2. a restless desire for change and excitement
  3. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

Examples

The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for

He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.

A note of impatience had entered his voice.

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please

Definitions

verb

  1. give satisfaction
  2. give pleasure to or be pleasing to
  3. be the will of or have the will (to)

adverb

  1. used in polite request

Examples

I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’

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But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.

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