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Usage of to idle in English

GM announced last week it plans to idle five North American plants. 
 Reuters 

Wired: Trigger throttle increases thrust as needed and returns to idle quickly. 
 Wired 

Few men can be more disposed to idle dreaming than I am. 
 Thyrza 

The engine coughed, spewed a blast of exhaust, and settled to idle. 
 Stash 

Why should we be allowed to idle while they have to slave? 
 The Conflict 

In the meantime, it said it was compelled to idle its three plants. 
 Reuters 

Here was no Vatican in which to idle and hope for possible meetings. 
 The Emancipated 

But he was not the man to yield to idle fancies. 
 Cord and Creese 

Or, if the mood take us, we may abandon ourselves to idle meditation 
 The Book-Hunter at Home 

You shouldn't be listening to idle gossip, Mathilde tells her primly. 
 Those who save us 

Left to idle lamentations, Israel might now have planted deep furrows in his brow. 
 Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile 

The field returned to idle conditions with the race resuming with 95 laps remaining. 
 Reuters 

He hesitated, allowing the engine to idle, suddenly doubting his decision to come here. 
 Amagansett 

And so he was not, as a rule, a man given to idle reverie. 
 The Golem and the Jinni 

The Prince of India was not given to idle expectations. 
 The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 

Before I reached the subway stop, the car inched forward to idle at curbside. 
 Mysterious Skin 

Meanings of to idle in English