idle
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- 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.
- Light-headed; foolish.
Verb
- To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
Noun
- The state of idling, of being idle.
- The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
- An idle animation.
- An idle game.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Integrated DeveLopment Environment.
- Initialism of Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
- Acronym of indolent lesion of epithelial origin.
- 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.
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