Idle
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Idle generally refers to idleness, a lack of motion or energy.
Idle or idling, may also refer to:
Technology
[edit]- Idle (engine), engine running without load
- Idle (CPU), CPU non-utilisation or low-priority mode
- Synchronous Idle (SYN), the idle command to synchronize terminals
- System Idle Process
- Idle (programming language), a dialect of Lua
- IDLE, an integrated development environment for the Python programming language
- IMAP IDLE, an IMAP feature where an email server actively notifies a client application when new mail has arrived
Places
[edit]- Idle (GNR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
- Idle (L&BR) railway station, in Idle, West Yorkshire
- Idle, West Yorkshire, UK; a suburb of Bradford, England
- Idle and Thackley, a ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, UK
- River Idle, a river flowing through Nottinghamshire, England
People
[edit]- Mrs. Idle (born 1940), a stagename for Australian actress Lyn Ashley
- Christopher Idle (politician) (1771–1819), British politician
- Christopher Idle (hymnwriter) (born 1938), British hymnodist
- Eric Idle (born 1943), a comedian, sketch writer, and actor, member of Monty Python
- Graham Idle (born 1950), British rugby footballer
Entertainment
[edit]Music
[edit]- Idle, a 2000 demo album by the band Daylight Dies
Video games
[edit]- Idle game, another name for an incremental game
Other uses
[edit]- Indolent lesions of epithelial origin (IDLE), a classification of cancers
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