0 present participle of idle
1 If an engine or machine idles, it runs slowly but does not move or do any work:
They base their hypothesis on clinical evidence that basal ganglia dysfunction allows slow idling cortical rhythms to predominate.
You could have made that turn and been on your way-on our way-instead of idling around here.
Such an inhibitory mechanism would help the brain go into a cortical idling mode during periods of mental inactivity.
Require that if a loop exists, the last step contains a transition to disallow looping by idling.
These rules force all idling to happen at the beginning, followed by non-idling time-steps (if any).
Morse, quite differently, gets his best ideas through idling.
Of course idling steps may always intervene.
I can hardly agree that if there is idling it can be for lack of sustenance.