idle
ahy duhl
- n the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
the car engine was running at idle - v run disconnected or idle
- v be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- a not in action or at work
an idle laborer
idle drifters
the idle rich
an idle mind - s without a basis in reason or fact
idle fears - s not in active use
the machinery sat idle during the strike
idle hands - s silly or trivial
idle pleasure
light idle chatter - s lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
idle talk - s not yielding a return
idle funds - s not having a job
idle carpenters
- Far from posing idle brain teasers, her research might solve one of physics' great mysteriesnamely, why gravity is so weak in contrast to electromagnetism and other forces.
- The retired Barkley has apparently become one of the idle rich, with nothing to do but call Wade over and over again to ask such urgent questions as, "You like popsicles?".
- If enough users volunteer their idle computer time to index the Web, hundreds of thousands of PCs could possibly match the indexing power of first-tier search engines such as Google.