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    Idle phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'idle'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of idle: /ɪdlɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of idle: /ɪdlɛ/

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    List of meaning for idle

    not in use; inactive

    idle(adj)

    the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling

    "the car engine was running at idle"

    idle(adj)

    not in action or at work

    "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"

    baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild(adj)

    without a basis in reason or fact

    "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

    idle, unused(adj)

    not in active use

    "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"

    idle, light(adj)

    silly or trivial

    "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"

    idle, loose(adj)

    lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility

    "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"

    dead, idle(adj)

    not yielding a return

    "dead capital"; "idle funds"

    idle, jobless, out of work(verb)

    not having a job

    "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"

    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"

    not being in a state of use, activity, or employment the car was idle for two weeks while they went on vacation

    the company's competitors have not been idle in developing rival products

    not easily aroused to action or work

    an idle employee who always seems to be either on break or at lunch

    to spend time doing nothing she likes to idle during the summer and recharge herself for the fall semester

    we idled away the evening relaxing around the campfire

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    idle in sentence

    1. The restaurant’s oven has been idle since the storm knocked out the power.

    2. Because of the pilot strike, the airplanes are sitting idle at the gates.

    3. The overweight cat is idle and rarely leaves his pillow.

    4. My rival spread a bruit about me to the rest of the class, trying to make me look bad with idle gossip.

    5. Fired from another job because of his indolence, the idle worker tried to think of an excuse to give his wife.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term idle

    So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

    – Michel de Montaigne

    It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matchd with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drinkLife to the lees. All times I have enjoydGreatly, have sufferd greatly, both with thoseThat loved me, and alone; on shore, and whenThro scudding drifts the rainy HyadesVext the dim sea. I am become a name;For always roaming with a hungry heartMuch have I seen and known,cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honord of them all,And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroGleams that untravelld world whose margin fadesFor ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnishd, not to shine in use!As tho to breathe were life! Life piled on lifeWere all too little, and of one to meLittle remains; but every hour is savedFrom that eternal silence, something more,A bringer of new things; and vile it wereFor some three suns to store and hoard myself,And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho much is taken, much abides; and thoWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

    – Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

    Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

    – George Du Maurier

    All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

    – H.L. Mencken

    #3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.

    – California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"

    Everybody jokes about Reid and his nasty habit of hanging up the phone as soon as he's done with his end of the conversation, but the president's not much better, there's not a lot of idle chitchat.

    – Jim Manley

    It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

    – Benjamin Franklin

    Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

    – George Bernard Shaw

    People who treat the sacrosanct of the house as temple don't battle like cattle or idle time in lengthy debate and theatrical discussion, but find solution to the problem in the overall interest of the population.

    – Anuj Somany

    To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

    – Buddha

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