What's the difference between agile and ductile?

Agile


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (2) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
  • (3) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
  • (4) Joe Roberson, a digital consultant who co-managed Innovation Labs believes the charity sector is still a far way behind other sectors when it comes to developing apps and this is due to a lack of understanding of how business and lean or agile design thinking can help them move forward digitally.
  • (5) Therefore it is reasonable to consider the described model as a simple, agile and economic instrument adaptable to other cases, although still to be perfected.
  • (6) Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON in Britain, said: "We had to undertake a deep and rigorous review of how much money we spend in order to ensure we keep costs as low as possible for our customers, become a more agile organisation and build a sustainable business in the UK.
  • (7) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
  • (8) Now, I think that Corbyn’s parliamentary and political past is integral both to his appeal and his problems and, as a phenomenon, he’s quite different to Podemos , who are agile and flexible.
  • (9) By streamlining its governance, the Premier League was more agile than its predecessors.
  • (10) New site-specific endonucleases LplI and AagI have been isolated from the Lactobacillus plantarum and Achromobacter agile cells, respectively.
  • (11) It is a compelling argument, which – as the referendum that will make or break him looms – Mr Cameron should be agile enough to make.
  • (12) Act more like a lobby group – an insider rather than outsider – recruit people of influence inside the chamber to support your bill, have a fantastic website and a responsive, well-managed Facebook page, invest in research and polling, make story-telling central to your message, be bipartisan, make friends with corporate Australia, and have a movement that is agile but built for endurance.
  • (13) The Home Office regards “operational agility” and problems of setting a precedent for judicial involvement in executive decisions as main considerations in the new regime.
  • (14) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
  • (15) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
  • (16) But although some surgeons stop operating as they get older, aware that they are not physically as agile or alert as they once were, nobody knew how long their period of excellence lasted.
  • (17) The developer promised “more varied gameplay” and a greater degree of experimentation on this sequel (the opportunity to take safer, longer routes for example, in favour of the quicker, more perilous options) but the same projectile-like sense of agility and rapidity that defined the original seems to have been retained.
  • (18) The remaining four Baltic Sea species, "A. agile," "A. kieliense," "A. luteum," and "A. sanguineum," could not be placed in the new subdivision of Agrobacterium.
  • (19) The world is full of savvy, agile competitors who know quality makes a difference."
  • (20) Labor sources say Turnbull’s talk about “agility” and “innovation” goes down like a lead balloon in these electorates.

Ductile


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
  • (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mechanical and biomechanical testing of a new bone cement suggests that improved load transfer to the proximal femur could be achieved with the combination of a cement having a lower modulus, a greater ductility and a lower creep resistance than polymethylmethacrylate and a suitably shaped femoral component.
  • (2) The above materials were generally ductile and the mechanical properties indicated a useful class of materials for clinical use.
  • (3) Results indicated that excellent welds can be obtained with very little loss of strength and ductility in the area of the weld joint.
  • (4) These materials could not be used in load-bearing applications because of the excessive grain growth and loss of the wrought structure of both the commercially pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V substrates, and the loss of ductility in the cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy.
  • (5) Cast and hot isostatically pressed Ti-6Al-4V, however, has a relatively low ductility and reduced fatigue properties.
  • (6) Furthermore, it has been shown that the attainment of suitable strength is invariably associated with an unacceptable level of ductility.
  • (7) The effect of stress on a cantilever, consisting of a ductile alloy in contact with a brittle polymer, was demonstrated to be complex.
  • (8) The presence of the urethane bond at the N-terminus protecting group was found to reduce solubility, ductility, and processibility, probably due to interchain hydrogen bonding.
  • (9) Analysis of the stress-strain curves revealed a transition in the type of deformation at this point from pseudo-ductile to brittle.
  • (10) This composition is consistent with the hypothesis that the cement line provides a relatively ductile interface with surrounding bone matrix, and that it provides the point specific stiffness differences, poor 'fiber'-matrix bonding and energy transfer qualities required to promote crack initiation but slow crack growth in compact bone.
  • (11) The parameters used to assess performance were sharpness, resistance to bending, and ductility.
  • (12) maize starch and polymeric materials, there was an increase in the yield pressure with punch velocity attributable to a change either from ductile to brittle behaviour or a reduction in the amount of plastic deformation due to the time dependent nature of plastic flow.
  • (13) The purpose of this research was to evaluate the torsional strength and ductility of CP titanium in the as received condition, heat treated below the alpha----beta transition temperature, and glass bead blasted.
  • (14) In the present effort, the same flexure tests were reevaluated to include the parameters of stiffness, toughness, and ductility.
  • (15) The proximal end is ductile and the distal end rigid.
  • (16) A more ductile PLLA exhibiting a lower rate of degradation was prepared by extraction of low molecular weight compounds with ethyl acetate.
  • (17) The ductility and malleability of pure silver allow for ease of adaptation or alteration as a chairside or operating room procedure.
  • (18) (3) The simulated ceramic firing cycle created a small amount of ductility in SMG-2, but the lowering of the yield stress in Ceramco-0 renders the welds dangerously weak even with improved ductility.
  • (19) The fracture of the titanium specimens was ductile, with dimples occurring at the fracture surfaces.
  • (20) The superior ductility of needles made by one manufacturer was related to the specific alloy, stainless steel ASTM 45500, used in their production.