İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. Boşta, Boş Duran. boş duran. s.
2. işsiz, aylak.
3. tembel.
4. boş, asılsız (söz/vaat/tehdit).
5. boşta, işlemeyen (makine).
6. boş (vakit). f. (motor) rölantide/avarada çalışmak. issiz, aylak; tembel; yararsiz, sonuçsuz, bos,zaman öldürmek; (motor, vb.) yavas çalismak, yavas gitmek. boş duran,v.boşa zaman harca:adj.atıl. boş duran. s.
7. boş (vakit). f. (motor) rölantide/avarada. avara. rölanti, ara. boş duran. bos duran, aylak, eylemsiz, etkin olmayan. boş durmak, boşta olmak, boşa harcamak. boş, kullanılmayan, başıboş, yersiz, gereksiz, işsiz güçsüz, aylak, boşa geçen, haylaz, işe yaramaz, işlemeyen, çalışmayan, tembel, avare, verimsiz.
8. boş gezmek; boş; işlemeyen; vaktini boşa harcamak, oyalanmak, boş şeylerle meşgul olmak; idling pulley avara kasnagı idle away time zam, boşta çalışmak idle mo ments boş zamanlar idle pulley; s, aslı esası olmayan, işsiz, aylak.
9. işsiz. aylak. tembel. yararsız. sonuçsuz. boş. zaman öldürmek. (motor.vb.) yavaş çalışmak. yavaş gitmek.
10. boş duran. işsiz. aylak. aslı esası olmayan. işlemeyen. boş. boş gezmek. vaktini boşa harcamak. oyalanmak. boş şeylerle meşgul olmak. motor boşta çalışmak. haylaz. gevşek. atıl. avara. işsiz güçsüz. yararsız.
11. boşa zaman harca atıl, boş duran.
12. issiz. aylak. tembel. yararsiz. sonuçsuz. bos. zaman öldürmek. (motor. vb.) yavas çalismak. yavas gitmek.

Etymology : Middle English idel, from Old English Idel; akin to Old High German Ital worthless
Pronunciation : I-d^&l
Function : adjective
Date : before 12th century

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1. loaf, lounge, do nothing, laze around; waste time; operate at minimum speed (of an engine or machine). lazy; vain, futile; unoccupied, unemployed; groundless, without foundation; worthless, unimportant. idlepulley a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it [syn: idler pulley, idle wheel]idle pulley (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...see: idle.
2. Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
3. Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.
4. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.
5. Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
6. Light-headed; foolish.
7. To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
8. To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day. 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".
9. 1. If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.
10. If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used. Now the machine is lying idle.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. To idle workers means to stop them working. The strike has idled about 55,000 machinists.
16. 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.