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The word "loaf" can be used as a noun, meaning a shaped and baked piece of bread, or as a verb, meaning to idle or waste time. Its plural noun form is "loaves", and its third person singular present tense verb form is "loafs".

The word "loaf" can be used as a noun, meaning a shaped and baked piece of bread, or as a verb, meaning to idle or waste time. Its plural noun form is "loaves", and its third person singular present tense verb form is "loafs".

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The plural form of the noun is loaves. Loafs is the third person singular present tense of the verb. 名词复数为loaves。loafs为动词的第三人称单数现在式。
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]一条(面包) A loaf of bread is bread which has been shaped and baked in one piece. It is usually large enough for more than one person and can be cut into slices.
  [oft N of n]
  • ...a loaf of crusty bread.

    一条硬皮面包

  • ...freshly baked loaves.

    新鲜出炉的面包

2
[VERB 动词]游荡;闲逛;虚掷光阴 If you loaf, you stand or wait in a place, not doing anything interesting or useful.
  [V]
  [V P]
  • Soldiers loafed at street corners.

    士兵们在街角逛荡。

  • Loaf around means the same as loaf .Loaf around同loaf
    • We had been at Cambridge together, she studying medicine and me loafing around.

      我们一起在剑桥呆过。她学医,我则无所事事。


Oxford loaf / ləʊf ; NAmE loʊf /
noun
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verb
loaf loaves
noun ( plural loaves / ləʊvz ; NAmE loʊvz / ) an amount of bread that has been shaped and baked in one piece 一条(面包) a loaf of bread 一条面包 Two white loaves, please. 请拿两条白面包。 a sliced loaf 一条切片面包 see also
cottage loaf
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French loaf
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meat loaf
IDIOMsee
half
det., pron.
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use
v.
verb [intransitive ] loaf(about/around) ( informal) to spend your time not doing anything, especially when you should be working 游手好闲;无所事事;闲荡 SYN
hang about/around
A group of kids were loafing around outside. 一群小孩在外面四处游荡。
loaf / ləʊf ; NAmE loʊf / loaves / ləʊvz ; NAmE loʊvz /
LDC
loaf1 noun
loaf2 verb
loafloaf1 /ləʊf $ loʊf/ ●●● S3 noun (plural loaves /ləʊvz $ loʊvz/)
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1loaf (1)[countable] bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices:  a loaf of breadwhite/wholemeal/granary etc loaf British Englisha sliced loaf British English2[countable, uncountable] food that has been cut into very small pieces, pressed together, and baked:  a meat loaf3use your loaf British English old-fashioned used to tell someone to think more carefully about what they are doing
loaf1 noun
loaf2 verb
loafloaf2 verb [intransitive]
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written to spend time somewhere and not do very much SYN  hang around/roundloaf around/about They spend all day loafing around on street corners.
WDF

loaf

[ləʊf]loafed, loafing, loafs

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块(80%),游手好闲(10%),虚掷光阴(10%)
n.条,一条面包;块;游荡
vt.游荡;游手好闲;虚度光阴
vi.游荡;游手好闲;虚度光阴

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