What's the difference between challenging and easy?

Challenging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Challenge

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
  • (2) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (4) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
  • (5) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
  • (6) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (7) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
  • (8) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
  • (9) Intraperitoneal injection of indomethacin to pretreated animals resulted in increased levels of IL-1 and TNF and decreased levels of PGE2 following challenge with E. coli.
  • (10) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (11) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
  • (12) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (13) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
  • (14) The role of blood acetylcholinesterase in moderating the effects of organophosphate challenge in rats was tested.
  • (15) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
  • (16) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
  • (17) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
  • (18) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
  • (19) Injection of about four ImD 50 of vaccine intracerebrally produced a local immunity, resulting in an immediate kill of challenge organisms given 14 days later.
  • (20) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.

Easy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
  • (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.
  • (v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
  • (v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
  • (v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
  • (v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
  • (v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
  • (v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
  • (v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
  • (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
  • (2) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
  • (3) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
  • (4) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (5) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
  • (6) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
  • (7) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (8) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
  • (9) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (10) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
  • (11) This approach permits easy preparation of input data on the dimensions of the blocks and their positions in a 3-D arrangement.
  • (12) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.
  • (13) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
  • (14) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
  • (15) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (16) In conclusion, the indications are not often easy and is usually the object of a study of each case individually.
  • (17) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
  • (18) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (19) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
  • (20) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.