英语词汇“on standby”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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on standby.

a. Immediately available or ready for duty; in a state of readiness. Cf. senses A. 3b, B. 2a.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready > for duty

on standby1937

1937 S. B. Show et al. Fire Control Handbk. Region 5 (U.S. Dept. Agric. Forest Service) App. 13 156 8. Dispatcher Check List... Put other crews on standby. 9. Put other personnel on standby.

1946 R. E. Higginbotham Wine for my Brothers iv. 75 I'm on stand-by—take the wheel in fifteen minutes.

1971 W. Keenan Murder in Melancholy v. 48 We'll use two of the vans every night, the other will be on standby.

2006 Independent 17 July (Extra section) 2 (heading) He's got..a private jet on standby and hundreds of millions in the bank.

b. Of an electrically powered (esp. electronic) device: in an operational mode or state of readiness in which the power is switched on but the device is not in active use. Cf. sense A. 3a.

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1941 Industr. & Engin. Chem. (Analyt. ed.) 13 833/1 If the meter has been left on standby for some time, the drift is approximately 0.020 volt the first hour, after which it rapidly diminishes to the regular value.

1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxx. 100 A manually operated switch isolates part of the heaters when the machine is on stand-by.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Aug. Don't forget that equipment on standby can continue to use up to 70% of normal power consumption.

c. Waiting to be allocated an unreserved or unclaimed place on the basis of earliest availability; in possession of a standby ticket. Cf. sense B. 5.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [phrase] > on stand-by

on standby1962

1962 J. D. MacDonald Key to Suite ii. 26 ‘You got in real early.’ ‘Earlier than I wanted to. But all they could do for me on anything later was put me on standby.’

1970 Guardian 8 Sept. 11/4 All the flights are full. They're likely to be on standby half the night for seats on any plane.

2018 @brookiyuki 23 May in twitter.com (accessed 1 Dec. 2021) My flight is overbooked so I'm on standby for a seat [‘upside-down face’ emoji].

单词	on standby
释义	> as lemmas on standby Phrases on standby. a. Immediately available or ready for duty; in a state of readiness. Cf. senses A. 3b, B. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready > for duty on standby1937 1937 S. B. Show et al. Fire Control Handbk. Region 5 (U.S. Dept. Agric. Forest Service) App. 13 156 8. Dispatcher Check List... Put other crews on standby. 9. Put other personnel on standby. 1946 R. E. Higginbotham Wine for my Brothers iv. 75 I'm on stand-by—take the wheel in fifteen minutes. 1971 W. Keenan Murder in Melancholy v. 48 We'll use two of the vans every night, the other will be on standby. 2006 Independent 17 July (Extra section) 2 (heading) He's got..a private jet on standby and hundreds of millions in the bank. b. Of an electrically powered (esp. electronic) device: in an operational mode or state of readiness in which the power is switched on but the device is not in active use. Cf. sense A. 3a. ΚΠ 1941 Industr. & Engin. Chem. (Analyt. ed.) 13 833/1 If the meter has been left on standby for some time, the drift is approximately 0.020 volt the first hour, after which it rapidly diminishes to the regular value. 1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxx. 100 A manually operated switch isolates part of the heaters when the machine is on stand-by. 2015 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Aug. Don't forget that equipment on standby can continue to use up to 70% of normal power consumption. c. Waiting to be allocated an unreserved or unclaimed place on the basis of earliest availability; in possession of a standby ticket. Cf. sense B. 5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [phrase] > on stand-by on standby1962 1962 J. D. MacDonald Key to Suite ii. 26 ‘You got in real early.’ ‘Earlier than I wanted to. But all they could do for me on anything later was put me on standby.’ 1970 Guardian 8 Sept. 11/4 All the flights are full. They're likely to be on standby half the night for seats on any plane. 2018 @brookiyuki 23 May in twitter.com (accessed 1 Dec. 2021) My flight is overbooked so I'm on standby for a seat [‘upside-down face’ emoji]. extracted from standbyn.adj.adv. < as lemmas
随便看	to carve a knight out of to carve a limb from to carve a person up to carve asunder to carve from to carve in or to pieces to carve in two to carve it up to carve out to carve out of to carve to to carve up to case off to case over to case the joint, gaff, job, etc to case up to cash in to cash in one's chips to cash, pass or send in one's checks to cast , heave, spue up, vomit one's gorge to cast a bone to cast a chance to cast a clod between to cast a damp to cast a dash

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