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Discover LudwigThe phrase "able to idle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a machine or engine that can run without doing any work or to refer to a person who is capable of being inactive or unproductive.
Example: "The car's engine is able to idle for hours without overheating."
Alternatives: "capable of idling" or "able to remain idle".
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Exhausts crackled like those of dragsters as the racers, barely able to idle, jockeyed at the line and gunned custom-built engines.
The obvious problem with this approach is that you will never be able to "idle" with the engine running and the scooter stationary, and you will have to lift the rear wheel off the ground to get it started.
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Interestingly, using the same methodology as Garg et al (2004), we observe a specific increase in nucleotide turnover by PolB1 in the presence of a downstream Okazaki fragment, suggesting that PolB1 is also able to undergo idling at a nick, albeit at a highly reduced rate (almost three orders of magnitude lower) relative to that observed with DNA polymerase δ (Supplementary Figure S3).
But the new findings seem to suggest that the brain is able to put idle capacity to very different uses -- in this case, abstract verbal tasks, he said.
GlobalFlyer has so little drag that when its fuel is almost gone, it will not be able to land even with its engine set to idle.
Prosecutors attributed his action to "idle curiosity".
We like to idle at 50percentt hedged.
The Honda continued to idle, and Kalin inhaled deeply.
Meanwhile, the plant continues to idle expensively.
Pull throttle to idle.
Reduce throttle to idle.
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