Idle generally refers to
idleness
Idleness is a lack of Motion (physics), motion or energy. In describing a person, idle means the act of nothing or no Work (human activity), work (for example: "John Smith is an idle person"). A person who spends his or her days doing nothing cou ...
, a lack of motion or energy.
Idle or ''idling'', may also refer to:
Technology
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Idle (engine)
Idling refers to running a vehicle's engine when the vehicle is not in motion. This commonly occurs when drivers are stopped at a red light, waiting while parked outside a business or residence, or otherwise stationary with the engine running. Wh ...
, engine running without load
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Idle speed
Idling refers to running a vehicle's engine when the vehicle is not in motion. This commonly occurs when drivers are stopped at a red light, waiting while parked outside a business or residence, or otherwise stationary with the engine running. Wh ...
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Idle (CPU)
A computer processor is described as idle when it is not being used by any program.
Every program or task that runs on a computer system occupies a certain amount of processing time on the CPU. If the CPU has completed all tasks it is idle.
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, CPU non-utilisation or low-priority mode
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Synchronous Idle (SYN), the idle command to synchronize terminals
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System Idle Process
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Idle (programming language)
Idle generally refers to idleness, a lack of motion or energy.
Idle or ''idling'', may also refer to:
Technology
* Idle (engine), engine running without load
** Idle speed
* Idle (CPU), CPU non-utilisation or low-priority mode
** Synchronous ...
, a dialect of
Lua
Lua or LUA may refer to:
Science and technology
* Lua (programming language)
* Latvia University of Agriculture
* Last universal ancestor, in evolution
Ethnicity and language
* Lua people, of Laos
* Lawa people, of Thailand sometimes referred t ...
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IDLE, an integrated development environment for the Python programming language
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IMAP IDLE
In email technology, IDLE is an IMAP feature described iRFC 2177that allows a client to indicate to the server that it is ready to accept real-time
Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guar ...
, an IMAP feature where an email server actively notifies a client application when new mail has arrived
Places
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Idle (GNR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
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Idle (L&BR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
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Idle, West Yorkshire
Idle is a residential suburban area in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England and was a separate village, and before that it was the Manor of Idle.
Idle is loosely bordered by the areas of Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, Eccleshill, Wros ...
, UK; a suburb of Bradford, England
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Idle railway station
Idle railway station was a railway station in Idle, West Yorkshire, England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northw ...
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Idle and Thackley
Idle and Thackley is a Ward (politics), ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Idle, West Yorkshire, Idle and Thackley around which it is drawn.
The ...
, a ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Idle railway station (Leeds and Bradford Railway)
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River Idle
The River Idle is a river in Nottinghamshire, England whose source is the confluence of the River Maun and River Meden near Markham Moor. The Idle flows north from its source through Retford and Bawtry before entering the River Trent at West ...
, a river flowing through Nottinghamshire, England
People
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Mrs. Idle
Lyn Ashley (born Lynette Rumble; 18 March 1940) is an Australian actress who worked in the United Kingdom on television during the 1960s.
Early life
Ashley was born Lynette Rumble in Townsville, Queensland, on 18 March 1940. She is the daughte ...
(born 1940), a stagename for Australian actress Lyn Ashley
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Christopher Idle (politician)
Christopher Idle (1771 – 8 March 1819) was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1813 to 1818.
Idle was born in Penrith, Cumbria, and was elected to parliament in a by-election on 9 June 1813 ...
(1771–1819), British politician
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Christopher Idle (hymnwriter)
Christopher Martin Idle (born 11 September 1938) is a British hymnodist.
Idle was born in Bromley, Kent, and studied at Eltham College, St Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College, Bristol. He was ordained as a priest in the Chu ...
(born 1938), British hymnodist
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Eric Idle (born 1943), a comedian, sketch writer, and actor, member of Monty Python
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Graham Idle
Graham Idle (10 March 1950) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Bramley, Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage № 812), Bradford Northern, Hunslet, Rochdale Hornets, ...
(born 1950), British rugby footballer
Entertainment
Music
* ''Idle'', a 2000 demo album by the band
Daylight Dies
Daylight Dies is a melodic death-doom band from North Carolina, United States.
History
Daylight Dies was formed in 1996 by Barre Gambling and Jesse Haff. In 1999, the two recorded the band's first demo, ''The Long Forgotten Demo''. In 2000, G ...
Video games
* Idle game, another name for an
incremental game
Incremental games, also known as clicker games, clicking games (on PCs) or tap games (in mobile games), are video games whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking on the screen repeatedly. This "grinding" ear ...
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Other uses
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Indolent lesions of epithelial origin
A benign tumor is a mass of cells (tumor) that does not invade neighboring tissue or metastasize (spread throughout the body). Compared to malignant (cancerous) tumors, benign tumors generally have a slower growth rate. Benign tumors have re ...
(IDLE), a classification of cancers
See also
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Adle
Adl ( ar, عدل, ) is an Arabic word meaning 'justice', and is also one of the names of God in Islam. It is equal to the concept of ''Insaf'' انصاف (lit. sense of justice) in the Baháʼí Faith.
Adil ( ar, عادل, ), and Adeel ( ar, ...
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Christopher Idle (disambiguation) Christopher Idle may refer to:
* Christopher Idle (hymnwriter) (born 1938), British hymnwriter
* Christopher Idle (politician)
Christopher Idle (1771 – 8 March 1819) was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Mel ...
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Ideal (disambiguation)
Ideal may refer to:
Philosophy
* Ideal (ethics), values that one actively pursues as goals
* Platonic ideal, a philosophical idea of trueness of form, associated with Plato
Mathematics
* Ideal (ring theory), special subsets of a ring considere ...
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Idel (disambiguation) Idel may refer to:
*Moshe Idel, historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism (born 1947)
*Atil
Atil (also Itil) , was the capital of the Khazar Khaganate from the middle of the 8th century until the end of the 10th century.
Known to have bee ...
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Idle Hour (disambiguation) Idle Hour or ''variation'', may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* '' Hours of Idleness'' (book) 1807 poetry collection by Lord Byron
* ''Idle Hours'' (album), a 1962 blues album
* ''Idle Hours'' (painting), an 1894 landscape painting
Places, bu ...
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Idler (disambiguation)
The Idler refers to someone idle:
* An idle game
* A slacker, a person who habitually avoids work
* Idler-wheel, a system used to transmit the rotation of the main shaft of a motor to another rotating device
* Idler circuit, a circuit in a param ...
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Idles (disambiguation)
Idles are a British rock band.
Idles may also refer to:
* Idlès, a town and commune in Algeria
* The Teen Idles or Idles, an American hardcore punk band
See also
* Ideles In abstract algebra, an adelic algebraic group is a semitopological ...
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Idol (disambiguation)
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Idyl (disambiguation)
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