English Dictionary

while

/ʍaɪl/

verb

(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly. / (transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.

I will cook dinner while you clean the dishes.

意味（1）

(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.

I whiled away the hours whilst waiting for him to arrive

意味（2）

(transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.

They whiled them with such answere as suted to their purposes, and long adoe was made in weaving and unweaving Penelopes web, till the Spanish Armada was upon the Coast, and the very Ordnance proclaimed in their eares a surcease from further illusions.

意味（3）

(intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.

The tedious hours whiled slowly on, 'till the succeeding afternoon, when the expected carriage made its appearance much sooner than they had promised themselves.

意味（4）

Alternative spelling or misspelling of wile.

There it lies before me sparkling in the sun, whiling me as it often does from my pen or book to gaze upon its loveliness.