LekhoriLekhoriNot engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
idle workmen
To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
The state of idling, of being idle.
The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
a lumpy idle
A surname.
A suburb in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1737).
A river, the River Idle in Nottinghamshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.
From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel, from Proto-West Germanic *īdal, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), ijl (“rareified, skinny”), iel (“thi...
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to idle in an IRC channel
Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
High levels of all pollutants were found during time idling in stations.
An idle animation.