idle, unused
(adjective) not in active use; “the machinery sat idle during the strike”; “idle hands”
idle
(adjective) not in action or at work; “an idle laborer”; “idle drifters”; “the idle rich”; “an idle mind”
idle, jobless, out of work
(adjective) not having a job; “idle carpenters”; “jobless transients”; “many people in the area were out of work”
dead, idle
(adjective) not yielding a return; “dead capital”; “idle funds”
idle, loose
(adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; “idle talk”; “a loose tongue”
idle, light
(adjective) silly or trivial; “idle pleasure”; “light banter”; “light idle chatter”
baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild
(adjective) without a basis in reason or fact; “baseless gossip”; “the allegations proved groundless”; “idle fears”; “unfounded suspicions”; “unwarranted jealousy”
idle
(noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; “the car engine was running at idle”
idle, tick over
(verb) run disconnected or idle; “the engine is idling”
idle, laze, slug, stagnate
(verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation; “The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”; “He slugged in bed all morning”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Idle (plural er-noun or Idles)
A surname.
• Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied
idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)
(obsolete) Empty, vacant.
Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
(obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• (of no importance): pointless
• See also lazy
idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)
(transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
(intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
(intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
idle (plural idles)
(gaming) An idle animation.
(gaming) An idle game.
Synonyms: idle game, incremental game
• Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied
IDLE
(programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated DeveLopment Environment.
(programming, Python) Initialism of Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
(pathology) Acronym of indolent lesion of epithelial origin.
(integrated development environment)
• IDE (integrated development environment)
(indolent lesion of epithelial origin)
• tumour/tumor
• malignancy
• cancer
• Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied
Source: Wiktionary
I"dle, a. [Compar. Idler; superl. Idlest.] Etym: [OE. idel, AS. idel vain, empty, useless; akin to OS. idal, D. ijdel, OHG. ital vain, empty, mere, G. eitel, Dan. & Sw. idel mere, pure, and prob. to Gr. Ether.]
1. Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren. "Deserts idle." Shak. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.
2. Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours. The idle spear and shield were high uphing. Milton.
3. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen. Why stand ye here all the day idle Matt. xx. 6.
4. Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
5. Light-headed; foolish. [Obs.] Ford. Idle pulley (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power.
– Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution.
– In idle, in vain. [Obs.] "God saith, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God in idle." Chaucer.
Syn.
– Unoccupied; unemployed; vacant; inactive; indolent; sluggish; slothful; useless; ineffectual; futile; frivolous; vain; trifling; unprofitable; unimportant.
– Idle, Indolent, Lazy. A propensity to inaction is expressed by each of these words; they differ in the cause and degree of this characteristic. Indolent denotes an habitual love to ease, a settled dislike of movement or effort; idle is opposed to busy, and denotes a dislike of continuous exertion. Lazy is a stronger and more contemptuous term than indolent.
I"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Idled; p. pr. & vb. n. Idling.]
Definition: To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. Shak.
I"dle, v. t.
Definition: To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
