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单词 idler
释义

idle /īˈdl/

adjective
  1. Unemployed
  2. Disliking work, lazy
  3. Not occupied
  4. Not in use or operation
  5. Useless
  6. Unimportant
  7. Unedifying
  8. Vain
  9. Baseless, without foundation
  10. Trifling
transitive verb
  1. To pass or spend in idleness
  2. To make (an engine, etc) idle
intransitive verb
  1. To be idle or unoccupied
  2. (of machinery) to run without doing work
  3. (of an engine) to run slowly when disengaged from the transmission
ORIGIN: OE īdel; Du ijdel, Ger eitel

iˈdlehood noun (archaic)

iˈdleness noun

iˈdler noun

  1. A person who wastes time or is reluctant to work
  2. An idle pulley or idle wheel

idˈlesse noun (poetic)

Idleness

iˈdly adverb

iˈdle-headˈed adjective

Foolish

idle money noun (economics)

That part of the total money supply that is neither being used to finance current transactions nor being lent out on the money market

idle pulley noun

A pulley which rotates freely and guides, or controls the tension of, a belt (also iˈdler)

idle time noun

A period or periods when a machine, eg a computer, is able to function properly but is not being used for productive work

idle wheel noun

A wheel placed between two others for transferring the motion from one to the other without changing the direction (also iˈdler)

idle worms plural noun (informal)

Worms once jocularly supposed to be bred in the fingers of lazy maidens

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