One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction. || One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard. || (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship’s crew who is not required to keep the night-watch || A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.
(transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. || (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. || (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
We want to enjoy the Caribbean island life and idle by the beach.
Many mothers called their sons home to either work on the land or merely idle their time away.
He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass.
|noun|
1.A state of inaction; inactivity.
‘we suffered a period of enforced _idleness_ ’
‘The night wasn’t totally spent in _idleness_ .’
2.Laziness; indolence.
‘he was punished for his _idleness_ at school’
‘The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against _idleness_ and sloth.’
词性:|noun|
‘we suffered a period of enforced _idleness_ ’
