idle vs idol
Definitions
verb
- run disconnected or idle
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
adjective
- not in action or at work
- not yielding a return
- silly or trivial
- not in active use
- not having a job
noun
- the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
Examples
It did in fact return many idled workers to the work force and created a good deal of useful infrastructure but that was then, this is now.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others.
Definitions
noun
- a material effigy that is worshipped
- someone who is adored blindly and excessively
- an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
Examples
She has one annoying but lovable big brother that looks out for her, and a little sister that adores and idolizes her.
Likewise, it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports that former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple of seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting "Idol" and revving up ratings.
That the people shall be destroyed with the sword: I will cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, the valley of idolatry, for the gods of the Syrians were gods of the valleys (1 Kings xx. 23), were worshipped in valleys; as the idols of Israel were worshipped on the hills; him also that holdeth the sceptre of power, some petty king or other that used to boast of the sceptre he held from Beth-Eden, the house of pleasure.
