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idler::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer |
| Type of | nonworker |
| Has types | couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, no-account, poke, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, clock watcher, woolgatherer |
| Derivation | idle |
Examples of idler
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The track is driven by a drive sprocket at the rear, with an idler at the front.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The idler was pinched against the bottom or inside edge of the platter to drive it.
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Third are the trailing idler wheels, usually to provide support to larger fireboxes.
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Tie Rod's ambition has always been to be an idler, but he never quite quit working hard.
From the kentucky.com
Hodgkinson would be happy to know that over the years, I have become a bit of an idler.
From the usatoday.com
For Barnacle Bill the Sailor is not about to be caught looking like a privileged idler.
From the time.com
Belt drives brought improved motor and platter isolation compared to idler-wheel designs.
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The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley is called the idler.
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This accomplishes a transfer of the memory state onto the idler.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
- An idler is a mechanical device such as an idler pulley or idler wheel that is secondary to the main transfer of power in a mechanical system.
- The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760. ...
- The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time.
- The Idler is a yearly British magazine devoted to its ethos of 'idle living'. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
- Idlers is a Canadian reggae band from Newfoundland founded in 2006 by Schiralli-Earle and Mark Wilson and now consisting of eleven members.
- (The Idlers) The Idlers of the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) are an all-male collegiate a cappella ensemble specializing in the performance of sea shanties and patriotic music.
- One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard; Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch^[1]; A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.^[2]^[3]^[4]
- (Idlers) Members of a ship's company not required to serve watches. These were in general specialist tradesmen such as the carpenter and the sailmaker.
