Object

• speed: The engine sound will initially decrease to idle speed, but then increase as reverse thrust is applied.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• let: I get a whistling noise when i accelerator and it stops when let the car idle or the revs are low.

Modifies a noun

• chatter: I don't think it was just idle chatter or lies.

• curiosity: Why should our family calamity be made the topic of idle curiosity?

• speculation: Engaging the Real Work of Management The Real Work of Management is not about a concept or idle speculation.

• chit-chat: They will even make idle chit-chat when things are calmer.

• timeout: Session and idle timeouts may be applied and the text messages in all the default URLs on the AP can be customized.

• gossip: The asylum centers are the breeding places of rumors and idle gossip.

Used with adjective complement

• lie: Capital too lies idle, rotting by the day.

• sit: Actually the hosts ' CPUs are sitting idle a lot of the time.

• stand: Going out three hours later he saw some more men standing idle in the market place.

• remain: Consequently, if a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should remain.

• lay: The latter in Smith's eyes are given by the amount of metallic money that would lay idle in merchants balances.

• leave: The kids are left idle with nothing to do.

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: That'll teach us to idle away mornings in bed.

Infinitive complement

• pretend: It would be idle to pretend that these arguments are easy to win.

Modifying Another Word

• otherwise: SETI@home ) which allowed the use of otherwise idle time on machines used for other purposes.

• too: The first is the most obvious - I'm too idle to clean ' em up.

Preposition: for

• while: But more often than not you'll only spot a problem when your trailer or motor caravan has been standing idle for a while.

• minute: Why does AIM ignore my option setting to dim Buddies in my Buddy List after they've been idle for 5 minutes?