Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. idel, AS. īdel, vain, empty, useless; akin to OS. īdal, D. ijdel, OHG. ītal, vain, empty, mere, G. eitel, Dan. & Sw. idel, mere, pure, and prob. to Gr. clear, pure, to burn. Cf. Ether
In literature:
The two were not idle, but in the crucial moment turned the scale.
"The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston
But idleness and rest are not incompatible; neither are idleness and service, nor idleness and contentment.
"The Untroubled Mind" by Herbert J. Hall
Again, prayer to those who cannot know what we pray for is idle.
"On Prayer and The Contemplative Life" by St. Thomas Aquinas
THE IDLE 'PRENTICE AT PLAY IN THE CHURCH-YARD DURING DIVINE SERVICE.
"The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings" by John Trusler
All this arises from mere idleness.
"The Comedies of Terence" by Publius Terentius Afer
The man is standing idle there.
"Orley Farm" by Anthony Trollope
The incentives which lead young men to work are as various as the influences which tend to make them idle.
"Julian Home" by Dean Frederic W. Farrar
With an intellect like hers, it would be idle to adopt so shallow an artifice.
"The War Trail" by Mayne Reid
Entreaty, he felt, would be idle, and might waste time and end in his own defeat and death.
"The White Chief" by Mayne Reid
His religion is a bit of idle ritual which is an offence unto God!
"My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year" by John Henry Jowett
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In poetry:
Are you weary of the searching
For the Root of ill,
That you, like an idle urchin,
Play at sitting still ?
"The Patrol And The Gold-Digger" by Adam Lindsay Gordon
The modest mirth that she doth use
Is mix'd with shamefastness;
All vice she doth wholly refuse,
And hateth idleness.
"A Praise of his Lady" by Anonymous British
Not to idle dreams and trances,
Length of face, and solemn tone,
But to Faith, in daily striving
And performance shown.
"To ------," by John Greenleaf Whittier
He will not speak? What friend belies
His love with idle breath?
We read it in each others' eyes,
And ask no more in death.
"Compensations" by Alfred Noyes
No sinful word, nor deed of wrong
Nor thoughts that idly rove,
But simple truth be on our tongue,
And in our hearts be love.
"Now That The Sun Is Gleaming Bright" by Augusta Treverorum
We careless folk the deed forgot;
Till one day, idly walking,
We marked upon the self-same spot
A crowd of veterans talking.
"The Dandelions" by Helen Gray Cone
In news:
0 A t this moment, scores of thousands of Americans are idling in traffic jams, staring at CNN on airport TV screens, Googling swine flu on their iPhones, or waiting in line to buy surgical masks.
The cost for idling will go from $15 to $25 per hour.
Dania Maxwell/Staff Steve Gober continues a tradition at Stan's Idle Hour Restaurant to play the Star-Spangled Banner on Sunday, October 7, 2012 in Goodland, Fla.
Josh Thole 's idle Sunday afternoon in the dugout turned into a scare when a screaming foul ball off the bat of Kris Medlen struck the catcher on the right side of his head.
CARB provides some answers to questions about the state's new Jan 1 anti-idling law.
America's second largest automaker, announced restructuring plans Monday that will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and idle 14 plants by 2012.
The Columbia Star Dinner Train sits idly awaiting its first trip from Columbia to Centralia.
Idle ramblings of a sleep-deprived mind.
Or to sit in an Ecuadorean jungle on the banks of the Napo River idly studying a tarantula the size of one's hand as it seizes moths.
"No hammering while idling" feature helps increase tool life.
Affordable housing construction projects around the country have stalled or never been built, and hundreds of millions of government dollars set aside for them have been lost or sit idle.
The Obama administration announced that it won't allow infrastructure funds to sit idle as a result of stalled earmark projects.
More than $9 million Congress earmarked for Big Apple transit work was never spent, and now the city could lose it in an election-year bid to let states spend idle funds.
After years of fairly scandalous mismanagement the Van Dyck sat idle.
And for 2006-and-newer applications the VVB kit offers a warm-up feature that will close the vanes at idle until engine temperature reaches a pre-set level.
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In science:
Then kgk ,l ◦ fl,j − idk ,j k ≤ max(kgk ,l ◦ fl,j − fl,j k, kfl,j − idl,j k).
Line antiderivations over local fields and their applications
C maxl,j kfl,j − idl,j k, C = const > 0 is independent of f (see the proof of Theorem 2.6 ), consequently, Dif P (q ,n)(M ) and Dif S (q+1,n−1)(M ) are topological groups.
Line antiderivations over local fields and their applications
We averaged the results and fit a linear model to them using a least squares fitting routine in IDL called LINFIT.
Using Notch-Filter Masks for High Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
Idle nodes will have a relatively large in-degree while overloaded nodes will have a small in-degree.
Balanced Overlay Networks (BON): Decentralized Load Balancing via Self-Organized Random Networks
It allows the reduction of the idle time between the beginning and the end of computation operations.
EPspectra: A Formal Toolkit for Developing DSP Software Applications
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