idlers in English

noun

1

a habitually lazy person.

They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.

synonyms: loafer, layabout, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slacker, slob, lazybones, slowpoke, wastrel

2

a pulley that transmits no power but guides or tensions a belt or rope.

The service rep had a look at it and said that it wasn't the water pump, but an idler pulley (just there to keep the belt running the right way), meaning that the repair would be even cheaper.

noun

• loafer, layabout, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slacker, slob, lazybones, slowpoke, wastrel
• bum, loafer, layabout, do-nothing

Use "idlers" in a sentence

1. Gossips and Busybodies “Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and Busybodies, saying what they should not.” - 1 Timothy 5:13

2. Anglo indian men have been portrayed as feckless idlers; the women as promiscuous sirens

3. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London(http://Sentencedict.com), that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

4. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

5. The flow pulsation in a plane-parallel gear pump with 3-idlers was analyzed, formulae for calculating displacement, average flow velocity, instantaneous flow and pulsation flow were derived.

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7. 10 Luke tells us what happened next: “The Jews, getting jealous, took into their company certain wicked men of the marketplace idlers and formed a mob and proceeded to throw the city into an uproar.

8. 29 Or they could wait in hope for the European Central Bank to decide inflation is not so bad after all; or for the Germans to resile from their economic puritanism and become free-spending idlers.

9. ‘Track idler’ means sprockets or pulleys in the track undercarriage that do not transmit torque to the track belt or track chain, their main function being the tensioning of the track chain or track belt; track idlers may also create the ramp up/down angles in the track geometry.

10. Unlike other gangs of the wild west who were robbing banks, trains, and killing folks, this gang was a group of loafers and idlers who were guilty of a number of petty and minor crimes, hence the name “Bummers.”Born of the gold rush in the nearby mountains, Denver had become

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