to idle

Definition von to idle im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business; Empty, vacant; Not turned to appropriate use; not occupied
idle hours.; In Windows, the condition or state in which both Windows and the application have processed all pending messages in the queue from user- or hardware-initiated events and is waiting for the next event to occur In Windows NT multiprocessing, one idle thread exists for each processor; Neither receiving nor transmitting data on either port in the connection; If an engine or vehicle is idling, the engine is running slowly and quietly because it is not in gear, and the vehicle is not moving. Beyond a stand of trees a small plane idled; (of a card) suitable to be discarded or played without loss; The request is new and has not yet been authorized or processed by the requesting location; To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"; run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling"; Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen; silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"; ISO ILL status The request is new and has not been authorized by staff at the requestor location; inactive or ineffective, as in: She works all the time; I've never seen her idle; {f} loaf, lounge, do nothing, laze around; waste time; operate at minimum speed (of an engine or machine); If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used. Now the machine is lying idle; To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day; You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say. It was more of an idle threat than anything = empty; Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick-over; not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"; not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"; Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow; silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter; Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing; not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"; An ordered set transmitted continuously over a link when no data is being transmitted to maintain an active link It helps maintain bit, byte, and word synchronization; lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"; To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business; Another name for the Not Ready state See Not Ready state; The time that the DMX512 line is idle (high) and not sending any information Also known as the "mark" condition; disapproval If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be. idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers + idleness idle·ness Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature. + idly idly We were not idly sitting around; To idle workers means to stop them working. The strike has idled about 55,000 machinists; {s} lazy; vain, futile; unoccupied, unemployed; groundless, without foundation; worthless, unimportant; Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful; A link control signal indicating that the sending entity currently has no traffic pending for the entity connected to the other end of the link; (Otomotiv) The engine speed when the car isn't moving; A fill word transmitted on a fiber to fill the space between frames In Fibre Channel, a fiber must have continuous transmission words sent and received at regular intervals for it to remain operational inbound fiber; without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"; Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes. + idly idly We talked idly about magazines and baseball; inactive; waiting for a task or a wake up call; Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren; To idle a factory or other place of work means to close it down because there is no work to do or because the workers are on strike. idled assembly plants; not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"; Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly; Light-headed; foolish; Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours; run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling" be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands" not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind" not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work" lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter; Refers to the act of non-activity An individual who is in a #channel yet working on something else on their computer/PC; the slowest speed at which an engine will run without stalling; If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages; Describes the state of a computer that is on but whose processing power is not actively engaged in processing tasks The Windows version of Pioneer can be configured to process tasks during a provider node's idle time; An Ordered Set transmitted continuously over a link when no data are being transmitted Idle is transmitted to maintian an active link over a fibre and lets the receiver and transmitter maintain bit, byte, and word synchronization Intermix - A service in which Class 2 and Class 3 frames may be delivered to an N_Port which has a Class 1 dedicated connection open The Class 2 and 3 frames are delivered during times which no Class 1 frames are being delivered on the connection