meaning of expel2

1. To wait for; to await.
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.
3. To wait; to stay.
4. Expectation.
5. expect tool> 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 GUIs. Home http://expect. nist. gov/. ["expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Tasks", Don Libes, Comp Sys 42, U Cal Press Journals, Nov 1991].
6. consider reasonable or due; "Im expecting a full explanation as to why these files were ">destroyed"

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