idle

Definition of idle in English English dictionary: To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business; Empty, vacant; Not turned to appropriate use; not occupied
idle hours.; Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick-over; Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful
an idle fellow.; To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing
idle workmen.; Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly
an idle story; idle talk; idle rumor.; In Windows, the condition or state in which both Windows and the application have processed all pending messages in the queue from user- or hardware-initiated events and is waiting for the next event to occur In Windows NT multiprocessing, one idle thread exists for each processor; Neither receiving nor transmitting data on either port in the connection; If an engine or vehicle is idling, the engine is running slowly and quietly because it is not in gear, and the vehicle is not moving. Beyond a stand of trees a small plane idled; (of a card) suitable to be discarded or played without loss; The request is new and has not yet been authorized or processed by the requesting location; be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"; run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling"; Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen; silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"; ISO ILL status The request is new and has not been authorized by staff at the requestor location; inactive or ineffective, as in: She works all the time; I've never seen her idle; {f} loaf, lounge, do nothing, laze around; waste time; operate at minimum speed (of an engine or machine); If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used. Now the machine is lying idle; To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day; You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say. It was more of an idle threat than anything = empty; not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"; not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"; Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow; silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter; not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"; An ordered set transmitted continuously over a link when no data is being transmitted to maintain an active link It helps maintain bit, byte, and word synchronization; lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"; To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business; Another name for the Not Ready state See Not Ready state; The time that the DMX512 line is idle (high) and not sending any information Also known as the "mark" condition; disapproval If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be. idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers + idleness idle·ness Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature. + idly idly We were not idly sitting around; To idle workers means to stop them working. The strike has idled about 55,000 machinists; {s} lazy; vain, futile; unoccupied, unemployed; groundless, without foundation; worthless, unimportant; A link control signal indicating that the sending entity currently has no traffic pending for the entity connected to the other end of the link; (Otomotiv) The engine speed when the car isn't moving; A fill word transmitted on a fiber to fill the space between frames In Fibre Channel, a fiber must have continuous transmission words sent and received at regular intervals for it to remain operational inbound fiber; without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"; Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes. + idly idly We talked idly about magazines and baseball; inactive; waiting for a task or a wake up call; Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren; To idle a factory or other place of work means to close it down because there is no work to do or because the workers are on strike. idled assembly plants; not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"; Light-headed; foolish; Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours; run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling" be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands" not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind" not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work" lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter; Refers to the act of non-activity An individual who is in a #channel yet working on something else on their computer/PC; the slowest speed at which an engine will run without stalling; If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages; Describes the state of a computer that is on but whose processing power is not actively engaged in processing tasks The Windows version of Pioneer can be configured to process tasks during a provider node's idle time; An Ordered Set transmitted continuously over a link when no data are being transmitted Idle is transmitted to maintian an active link over a fibre and lets the receiver and transmitter maintain bit, byte, and word synchronization Intermix - A service in which Class 2 and Class 3 frames may be delivered to an N_Port which has a Class 1 dedicated connection open The Class 2 and 3 frames are delivered during times which no Class 1 frames are being delivered on the connection
idle speculation: Speculation that is unlikely to be true
idle air bleed screw: (Otomotiv) A screw found instead of the idle speed screw on some carburetors. It allows air to enter the carburetor when the throttle is closed so that the car can idle
idle attempt: attempt that does not produce the desired result
idle capacity: (Ticaret) Unused production, storage or logistics resources. Capacity may be idle due to a lack of requirements in the current timeframe, or because of being held as a hedge against possible future requirements
idle character: An alphanumeric or digital character that is transmitted over a communications line but does not appear in the output of the receiving terminal
idle chatter: trivial talk, babbling, gossip, chit-chat
idle hours: hours spent doing nothing
idle mixture screw: (Otomotiv) A screw located on the outside of the carburetor that controls the proportion of the fuel/air mixture. It's now illegal to adjust these if limiter caps are present
idle money: money kept by the public as a means of payment
idle pulley: a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
idle pulley: A pulley on a shaft that rests on or presses against a drive belt to guide it or take up slack. Also called idle wheel
idle rumors: statements that have no foundation in fact
idle running: movement that does not cause action, futile movement
idle speed screw: (Otomotiv) A screw located at the bottom of the carburetor on the outside that keeps the throttle from closing completely when the car is idling, thus controlling the idle speed. See also idle air bleed screw, idle mixture screw, idle stop solenoid
idle stop solenoid: (Otomotiv) A small cylinder located on the outside of the carburetor on some vehicles. It prevents the car from continuing to idle after the ignition switch is shut off (this is called dieseling)
idle talk: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
idle talk: idle chatter, chit-chat, unimportant talk
idle time: (Ticaret) The planned or actual time an operation is not engaged in run time, or the active production of a product. Idle time is typically scheduled, for setup, maintenance or other activities, or unscheduled due to lack of a required resource such as material
idle time: time in which one is inactive, time spent resting or relaxing
bone-idle: utterly lazy
For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.
idleness: The state of being indolent; indolence
idleness: The state of being idle; inactivity
idler: One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction
idler: Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watchOED 2nd edition 1989
idler: One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard
idler: A mechanical device such as a pully or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.http: //www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idler%20wheelhttp: //www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idler+pulleyOED 2nd edition 1989
idly: In an idle manner
ıdle: {a} lazy, unemployed, worthless, trifling
ıdle: {n} to spend the time in laziness, trifle, waste
To be idle: sloth
bone idle: extremely lazy
bone idle: {s} bone lazy, lazy or idle from a constitutional standpoint (Informal)
bone-idle: constitutionally lazy or idle
idle time: (Ticaret) wait time
idled: past of idle
idled: {s} without a sense of constraint, lacking sense of responsibility; nonsensical, trifling, silly
idleness: {i} laziness; uselessness, worthlessness, triviality; inactivity
idleness: having no employment
idleness: The state of being idle; indolence; inactivity
idleness: The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness
idleness: Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality
idleness: the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
idleness: vacuity
idler: {i} lazy person, unproductive person, one who wastes time; idle wheel, idle gear (Machinery)
idler: An idle wheel or pulley
idler: One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard
idler: See under Idle
idler: [1] A gearwheel between a driving and a driven gear in a gear train which may serve to reverse the original direction of rotation of the driven wheel
idler: A pulley designed to guide/support one or more cables from sagging and rubbing but not to make direction changes in the cable
idler: person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
idler: A pulley used on some belt drives to provide proper belt tension and to eliminate belt vibration
idler: A pulley designed to support one or more cables but not to make direction changes
idler: disapproval If you describe someone as an idler, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and should be working. The Duke resents being seen as a moneyed idler. = loafer. someone who is lazy and does not work
idler: person who does no work; "a lazy bum
idler: An idler is a pulley or roller that does not produce any mechanical advantage, nor transmit power to a shaft Idlers are used to lead a chain around a bend (as in short wheel base recumbents), or to take up slack in a drive chain (as in a tandem chain tensioner, or the pulleys in a derailer
idler: One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch
idlers: plural of idler
idling: present participle of idle
idling: having no employment
idly: foolishly
idly: Without specific purpose, intent or effort
idly: in an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people
idly: In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; Obs
idly: lazily, inactively, in an unproductive manner
idly: in an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people"
sat idle: did nothing
sits idle: stays doing nothing, loiters