idling 的 4 个定义
i·dler, i·dlest.
- not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- not spent or filled with activity: idle hours.
- not in use or operation; not kept busy: idle machinery.
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i·dled, i·dling.
- to pass time doing nothing.
- to move, loiter, or saunter aimlessly: to idle along the avenue.
- to operate at a low speed, disengaged from the load.
i·dled, i·dling.
- to pass doing nothing: to idle away the afternoon.
- to cause to be idle: The strike idled many workers.
- to cause to idle: I waited in the car while idling the engine.
- the state or quality of being idle.
- the state of a machine, engine, or mechanism that is idling: a cold engine that stalls at idle.
idling 近义词
lounging
更多idling例句
- Speaking of special touches, I was sad to see the piano idle midweek but cheered to hear it’s played on Fridays and Saturdays.
- These strategies leave the battery "idle" for portions of the day—for comparison, imagine purchasing a taxi but only running it in the mornings.
- Computers, TVs and other electronics generate a lot of heat when sitting idle or even when turned off.
- The app aims to give users controls to designate when they’re heads-down, need to talk or just open for some idle chitchat.
- By definition this meant lower returns—because banks had to leave some capital idle rather than deploy it.
- The former politicians offer a variety of reasons for idling their campaign riches instead of giving them away.
- I walked behind the idling swing and gave it a gentle puff of a push.
- But a lot of that time is spent idling—waiting for a call, or in between jobs.
- On Sept. 5, Saad Al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila Al-Allaf, 74, were found dead in their idling BMW.
- The car, with United Kingdom license plates, was idling and locked from the inside.
- A big gray sedan stood in the middle of the road, the motor idling.
- With a half-smile he rose, and going to the door he bade his page who was idling in the anteroom go summon the captain.
- When he ought to have been in school, he was fishing, and idling away his time along the margins of the brooks and rivers.
- The next day I pleaded indisposition and spent most of the hours idling and drowsing in my chamber.
- The next morning the wicked sister, as she sat idling by the stove, took a fancy for some strawberries.