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General dictionaries General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. idles: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. idles: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  3. Idle's, Idles, idles: Wordnik [home, info]
  4. idles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  5. idles: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. idles: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  7. idles: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  8. Idles, The Idles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  9. idles: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idles: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idles: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idles: Idioms [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (idle)

verb:  be idle; exist in a changeless situation
verb:  run disconnected or idle
adjective:  lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility ("Idle talk")
adjective:  silly or trivial ("Idle pleasure")
adjective:  not in active use ("The machinery sat idle during the strike")
adjective:  not in action or at work ("An idle laborer")
adjective:  not having a job ("Idle carpenters")
adjective:  not yielding a return ("Idle funds")
adjective:  without a basis in reason or fact ("Idle fears")

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