different between adle vs idle

English

Etymology

From Middle English adle, from Old English ?dl (“disease, infirmity, sickness, pain, languishing sickness, consumption”), from Proto-Germanic *aidl?, *aidlaz (“burning, fever, disease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn, shine”). Cognate with Middle Low German ?del (“ulcer, wound, sore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d?l/

Noun

adle

1. (obsolete) Sickness; disease.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, dale, deal, lade, lead

German

Pronunciation

Verb

adle

1. inflection of adeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

• adl, alde, odle

Etymology

From Old English ?dl, from Proto-Germanic *aidl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?l/, /?ad?l/, /???d?l/

Noun

adle

1. disease

Descendants

• English: adle

References

• “??dle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-10.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German adeln

Verb

adle (imperative adl or adle, present tense adler, passive adles, simple past and past participle adla or adlet, present participle adlende)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

Related terms

• adel

References

• “adle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adle” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German adeln.

Alternative forms

• adla (a-infinitive)

Verb

adle (present tense adlar, past tense adla, past participle adla, passive infinitive adlast, present participle adlande, imperative adl)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

Related terms

• adel

Etymology 2

Determiner

adle

1. (dialectal) neuter of all

References

• “adle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English ?del, from Proto-Germanic *?dalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), German Low German iedel (“vain, idle”), German eitel (“vain, conceited”), and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??d(?)l, IPA^(key): /?a?d(?)l/
• Rhymes: -a?d?l
• Homophones: idol, idyll, idyl (US pronunciation)

Adjective

idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)

1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”

5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (of no importance): pointless
• See also Thesaurus:lazy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)

1. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.

   to idle in an IRC channel

   • 1939, Joan Evans, Chateaubriand (page 32)

     He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo […]

3. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

Derived terms

• idler

Related terms

• (sense 3) idling speed

Translations

Noun

idle (plural idles)

1. The state of idling, of being idle.
2. (gaming) An idle animation.
3. (gaming) An idle game.

   Synonyms: idle game, incremental game

References

• idle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• idle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied