| Domain | Definition |
| Noah Webster | 1:
[Adjective] Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing. Why stand ye here all the day idle? Matt.20. To be idle, is to be vicious.. |
| 2:
[Adjective] Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; as an idle man; an idle fellow.. | | 3:
[Adjective] Affording leisure; vacant; not occupied; as idle time; idle hours.. | | 4:
[Adjective] Remaining unused; unemployed; applied to things; as, my sword or spear is idle.. | | 5:
[Adjective] Useless; vain; ineffectual; as idle rage.. | | 6:
[Adjective] Unfruitful; barren; not productive of good. Of antres vast and idle desarts. Idle weeds.. | | 7:
[Adjective] Trifling; vain; of no importance; as an idle story; an idle reason; idle arguments.. | | 8:
[Adjective] Unprofitable; not tending to edification. Every idle word that men shall speak,they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt.12. Idle differs from lazy; the latter implying constitutional or habitual aversion or indisposition to labor or action, sluggishness; whereas idle, in its proper sense, denotes merely unemployed. An industrious man may be idle, but he cannot be lazy.. | | 9:
[Verb] To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business. To idle away, in a transitive sense, to spend in idleness; as, to idle away time.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | | 19th Century Satire | Useless. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
| Aerospace | A message from the computer that says that the GVAR receiver is not picking up the signal from the satellite. (references) |
| Dream Interpretation | 1: For a young woman to dream that she is leading an idle existence, she will fall into bad habits, and is likely to marry a shiftless man.
2: If you dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs.
3: To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
| Environment | Idaho Department of Law Enforcement. (references) |
| Geography | Idle is geographically located in United Kingdom. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 53.833333 degrees North latitude and 1.733333 degrees West longitude. (references) |
| Post & Telecom | The condition of a line or of a piece of apparatus when it is not in use and is available for traffic. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wikipedic | IDLE is an album by Daylight Dies. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (obsolete) Empty, vacant. (references) |
| 2: [Adjective] Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
an idle fellow. (references) | | 3: [Adjective] Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
idle workmen. (references) | | 4: [Adjective] Not turned to appropriate use; not occupied.
idle hours. (references) | | 5: [Adjective] Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
an idle story; idle talk; idle rumor. (references) | | 6: [Verb] (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick-over. (references) | | 7: [Verb] (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. (references) | | 8: [Verb] (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. (references) | Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top |
| Expressions | Definition |
| Idle and Thackley | Idle and Thackley (population 14,541 - 2001 UK census) is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitian District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Idle and Thackley around which it is drawn. (references) |
| Idle Hour | Idle Hour is part of Oakdale, New York. (references) |
| Idle Hour Stock Farm | Idle Hour Stock Farm was a 400 acre (1.6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm near Lexington, Kentucky, United States established in 1906 by Colonel Edward R. Bradley. (references) |
| Idle pulley | 1: (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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. |
| | 2: A pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Idle RPG | Idle RPG (IRPG) is a computer role-playing game made for IRC. (references) |
| Idle talk | Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Idle wheel | 1: (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. |
| | 2: A pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Idle words | Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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. Usage: 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. |
| Massive array of idle disks | In computing, a massive array of idle disks (more commonly known as a MAID) is a system using hundreds to thousands of hard drives for near-line data storage. MAID is designed for Write Once, Read Occasionally (WORO) applications. In a MAID each drive is only spun up on demand as needed to access the data stored on that drive. This is not unlike a very large JBOD but with power management. (references) |
| River Idle | The River Idle is a river in Nottinghamshire, England. Its source is the confluence of the River Maun and River Meden, near Markham Moor. From there, it flows north through Retford and Bawtry before entering the River Trent near Misterton. (references) |
| Sick Happy Idle | Sick Happy Idle started out as a zine in 1993. There still is a zine featuring contributions from artists and artisans. They also release obscure CDs by bands such as The Teenbeat and [http://www.thedirtypins.co.uk The Dirty Pins]. (references) |
| System idle process | In Windows XP, The System Idle Process is, essentially, a counter which measures how much idle capacity the CPU has at any given time. Although it is not actually a process, SIP runs in the background and constantly monitors processing bandwidth, occupied memory and the Windows virtual paging file. System users can find it in the Windows Task Manager, under "SYSTEM", however, it cannot be terminated. (references) |
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition |
| Auto Idle | Computing | A facility provided by some Intel clock doubled microprocessors where the internal clock can be slowed to the external clock rate while the processor is waiting for data from memory, returning to full speed as soon as the data arrives. See also System Management Mode. (1994-11-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. |
| Idle capacity | Energy | The component of operable capacity that is not in operation and not under active repair, but capable of being placed in operation within 30 days; and capacity not in operation but under active repair that can be completed within 90 days. (references) |
| Idle character | Business | A control character that is transmitted when no useful information is being transmitted. (references) |
| Idle days | Transportation | Days when not available or immobilized. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Idle Lake | Literature | The lake on which Phædria or Wantonness cruised in her gondola. It led to Wandering Island. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
| Idle land tax | Finance | A tax imposed on the owners of land which is suitable for cultivation but which remains idle for reasons imputable to the owner. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Idle power | Electrical Engineering | An imaginary part of the complex power. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Idle state | Business | The telecommunications service condition that exists whenever user messages are not being transmitted but the service is immediately available for use. (references) |
| Idle talk | MultiLingual Slang | Hungarian (rizsa, szófosás). (references) |
| Idle thrust | Energy | The jet thrust obtained with the engine power control level set at the stop for the least thrust position at which it can be placed. (references) |
| Idle time | Business | A period during which a system, circuit, or component is not in use, but is available. (references) |
| Idle time | Military | A time interval during which either the worker, the equipment, or both do not perform useful work. (references) |
| Idle transition | Aerospace | The Mode Transition taken by the Transition System when the Command is null (absent). For each component, one Constraint is added, to assert that the mode does not change if the Mode Transition was nominal: modeVariable[timeStep]=m & modeTransition[timeStep]=nominal => modeVariable[timeStep+1]=m. See Mode Transition, Command, Constraint, Commanded Transition, and Transition System. (references) |
| Idle Wheel | Literature | 1: Suppose A, B, C to be three wheels, B being the idle or gear wheel. B simply conveys the motion of A to C, or of C to A.
2: The middle of three wheels, which simply conveys the motion of one outside wheel to the other outside wheel. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
| Idle wheel | Mining | A. A wheel interposed in a gear train, either to reverse rotation or to obtain the required spacing of centers, without affecting the ratio of the drive. Also called idler b. A pulley to guide a driving belt, to increase its tension, or to increase its arc of contact on one of the working pulley. (references) |
| Idle Worms | Literature | 1: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, 1. 4.
2: It was once supposed that little worms were bred in the fingers of idle servants. To this Shakespeare alludes -
3: "A round little worm
4: Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
| Marked idle channel | Post & Telecom | A configuration based on the assignment of nonshared channels to each coast station. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Return to an idle condition | Post & Telecom | Message sent by the user or the network to request the recipient to restart, i. e. to return to an idle condition, the indicated channel(s)or interface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Synchronous idle | Computing | Synchronous idle (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22. [Why?] (1996-06-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. |
| Synchronous idle | Meteorology & Standards | A transmission control character used by a synchronous transmission system in the absence of any other character (idle condition) to provide a signal from which synchronism may be achieved or retained between data-terminal equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Talk often idle | MultiLingual Slang | Hungarian (duma, rizsálni, dumálni). (references) |
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