'idler' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is lazy or who avoids work or other responsibilities, often not doing anything productive with their time. For example, "The idler spent the whole day in bed watching television."
Hamish Hamilton; 294 pages; £14.99 A memoir of how camping means exploring an unfamiliar place while recreating the safe comforts of home, by an editor-at-large of the Idler and an inveterate fan of guys and poles.
Even dull, ponderous old stratus basically fog-in-the-sky gets a fog-in-the-sky getsen his head is not in the clouds, the author runs a magazine fog-in-the-sky getsled the Idler.
He applies his energies to his work and tolerates a loveless marriage to Adela, the decent daughter of well-off conservative Catholic parents and sister of a Falangist idler.
An internal gear pump is shown in Figure 2. The driven gear is a rotor with internally cut teeth, which mesh with the teeth of an externally cut idler gear, set off-centre from the rotor.
The chain of buckets passes around the upper end of the ladder at a drive sprocket (called the upper tumbler) and loops downward to an idler sprocket (the lower tumbler) at the bottom.
The crescent part of the fixed casing divides the fluid flow between the idler gear and the rotor.
My god: I've just seen another idler-friendly piece in the New Statesman, this time, an article praising the noble ways of the tortoise.
(September 3, 2008: " 'Get away from me. Go move to China.' " September 16, 2008: "His buddy said, 'You are not human.' ") The idler-in-chief appears to be Tommy, a white male who works for the city and has been caught by Pakenham four times.
In the case of the Idler Academy, we are exploring the fantastic potential of the internet to provide high-quality online education in a convivial setting.
Jones, on her new album, "Little Broken Hearts," confronts the perception of herself as the sweet one; Apple, on hers, "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do," delves further into the crazy-girl narrative.
There's probably not another singer on a major label who gets to commit her totally unhinged vocal performances to record, and "Idler Wheel" has more than one.
