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Idle meaning
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.
Example sentences (20)
Warri refinery was idle for five months in 2016; KRPC did not refine crude for six months, and PHRC was only idle in September.
Although officially IDLE stands for "Integrated DeveLopment Environment", the name has been chosen in allusion to Eric Idle, as the name of the programming language Python itself has been chosen in allusion to the British comedy group Monty Python.
At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.
But Bryan first wished to tie the silver question to a greater cause:sfnsfn Upon which side will the Democratic Party fight; upon the side of "the idle holders of idle capital" or upon the side of "the struggling masses"?
However, when "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was adopted as a football chant in the late 1980s, Idle's then neighbour Gary Lineker suggested Idle re-record and release the popular track.
In early 2001 the CD Ride was released, featuring a new addition to the Idle Chatter family: "Idle Chatter Junior" and the 19-minute title piece, which tries to simulate a ride through various towns and country.
A decentralized infrastructure can leverage low-cost and idle resources from around the world; According to Anthesis Group and Stanford University Researchers, are sitting “comatose”.
Ah, the life of the idle rich.
Allow the engine to idle for at least a minute (or longer in icy weather) before putting it in gear, allowing the oil to circulate and apply its lubricating powers to internal components before the action begins.
Alwero Dam cost 648 million birr but lies idle.
Credit to them, they haven't been idle.
Except this latest linking of Postecoglou to the Premier League doesn’t feel like idle speculation which can be traced back to who is being priced up by the bookies.
FILE PHOTO: A commuter Seabus passes idle shipping cranes towering over stacked containers during a strike by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU) at Canada's busiest port of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 11, 2023.
For example, there is a radar that will call Pikmin back to the player if they are idle at the base or somewhere else.
Governors have not been sitting idle nor not acting upon staff complaints.
He added he expected idle capacity at Argentina’s crushing plants along the Parana River to exceed the current 65%.
He loves being in the cut and thrust of it all and has not been idle during his enforced absence, studying games, analysing players and working out when and where to relaunch a career in which he has won 13 major honours.
However, I am willing to bet that if this incentivizes many users to switch from Google search to Bing, Google will not stay idle and will find a way to develop its own program.
Hu Tao's "Hilitune" is not only sung by her on her voicelines and while she is idle, but also by Dusky Ming in Wangshu.
Idle Sleep allows you to choose a medium firmness level on both sides, a luxury-firm level on both sides, or one side with a medium firmness and one side with a luxury-firm level.