What's the difference between dextrous and handy?

Dextrous


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Dextrousness

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
  • (2) The measures of dual task interference for the two tasks did not correlate with one another; difficulty running simultaneous motor programs does therefore not explain the interference that is observed when tapping is performed while the other hand simultaneously performs a dextrous motor task.
  • (3) The former, which is found in other vertebrates, shows greater somatotopy in mammals that are 'dextrous' (e.g.
  • (4) direct corticomotoneural) in mammals that are dextrous than in mammals that are not.
  • (5) When they heard primitive British electro tracks such as A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, they decided to make their own music, creating a bleepy track called Dextrous using a bedroom-based sampler.
  • (6) Descending spinal pathways have been described in 'non-dextrous' avian species (chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons), and the purpose of this study was to determine if there are any differences in the origins of descending projections to the spinal cord in 'dextrous' or prehensile parrots (sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, and eastern rosella, Platycerus eximius).
  • (7) This suggests that the kinesthetic projection system in raccoons and monkeys is expanded in correlation with their more dextrous use of the hand.
  • (8) In contrast to this similarity, normal dextrous subjects responded to a nonverbal auditory stimulus by increasing the metabolic rate of glucose in their right hemispheres while eight of nine chronic alcoholics did not.
  • (9) The current results may guide computational models of human haptic object classification and the development of perceptual systems for robots equipped with sensate dextrous hands, capable of intelligent exploration, recognition, and manipulation of concrete objects.
  • (10) In the patients with PCA, the plasma GH increase after arginine and after dextrous was more marked.
  • (11) Even before the uprisings, Qatar was famous for its dextrous diplomacy and readiness to mediate in regional conflicts.
  • (12) Skepta: Konnichiwa review – rhymes that are dextrous, sharp and very British Read more I was at a music industry seminar recently where people were already talking about “the Stormzy model”.
  • (13) Two decades later, Dextrous is remembered as a seminal British dance track, while the label has become a pioneer of sorts.
  • (14) Van Hove and his ensemble must have choreographed every last moment, but it nonetheless felt like an extended improvisation , created with the barest of theatrical means (a table, some chairs, a bed) and finished with dextrous lightness of touch.
  • (15) The dextrously slick and sharp punk-reggae guitar sound developed by Dave Wakeling, and the hyperactive call-and-response between him and Ranking Roger on the B-side, would briefly up the 2 Tone ante, until they left to set up their own label operation, Go-Feet.
  • (16) "You can rotate the instruments 360 degrees, so they are more dextrous than the human hand," said Renforth, Da Vinci co-ordinator at the hospital.
  • (17) Strategies are also required to ensure dextrous beam delivery and to minimize thermal injury within adjacent tissue.
  • (18) Assaidi, signed from Heerenveen in the summer, was a joy to watch on the left flank as his dextrous footwork and sinuous runs tormented Albion time and again.

Handy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Performed by the hand.
  • (superl.) Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit.
  • (superl.) Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.
  • (superl.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (2) Compared with other instruments for the same purposes, the Gelomat has following advantages: Simple and handy use, good sensitivity and reproducibility, capability for simultaneous measurement of gel strength and gel elasticity.
  • (3) Giant spiders from Mars This is particularly handy later, when we encounter the mid-level boss, a giant spider-like vehicle known as a Fallen Walker.
  • (4) But playing with the filters means you can whittle the selection down by location and availability – handy, given there are several thousand dogs on offer in London alone.
  • (5) The new dry reagent strip method which takes only 1 min to carry out and requires only 20 microliters of blood seems to be handy and reliable.
  • (6) I liked working there in the "people department" (a new euphemism for the women's section in the age of feminism), since it offered handy distractions from the horror of the blank page.
  • (7) 7.25pm BST More via the nice, not to say obliging chaps @Ussoccer – in this case, a handy video preview of the game that is now, what, five minutes and some anthems away… 7.20pm BST Weather and warm-up update from US soccer… 7.16pm BST And Bosnia-Herzegovina: Begovic, Spahic, Bicakcic, Salihovic, Zukanovic, Lulic, Rahimic, Pjanic, Misimovic, Ibisevic, Dzeko.
  • (8) You can see by this handy income-distribution chart that over the past 44 years, middle-class incomes have barely budged .
  • (9) Merkel is known to be a keen mobile user and has been nicknamed "die Handy-Kanzlerin" ("Handy" being the German word for mobile phone).
  • (10) Negative side effects, both cardiac and extracardiac, were not observed: F appeared a handy and effective agent in post-AMI arrhythmias, especially when plasma drug levels are controlled; plasma F level monitoring is anyway recommended in pts with cardiac failure, owing to the wide interindividual variations.
  • (11) His guests have all left his property clean and tidy – and the money has come in handy.
  • (12) I wouldn’t put David Haye in just yet because he achieved more as a cruiserweight.” That’s a handy shopping list of varying talent and, apart from Wilder, the WBC champion with the imposing knockout record but yet to be truly stretched, it is not a field to invite trepidation.
  • (13) 1.15pm BST Digitimes: 'new iPads will impact expensive tablets' Got your pinch of salt handy?
  • (14) In my book, the Handi approach to innovation, although piecemeal and informal, is more likely to change the culture of the NHS than Sir David's stately institutions for innovation.
  • (15) When It went up late Wednesday, complete with handy links to fundraising pages.
  • (16) A handy way to distinguish a government announcement inspired more by politics than its actual policy outcome is when the prime minister’s office briefs (some) newspapers about it before it has been considered by the cabinet.
  • (17) Pint from £2.90 The Three-Legged Mare Three Legged Mare, York One of three York Brewery pubs (the others are the Last Drop at 27 Colliergate and the Yorkshire Terrier at 10 Stonegate), the Mare is particularly handy, as it's almost on York Minster's doorstep.
  • (18) Nielsen also said the masks came in handy when police deploy tear gas into a crowd, as they did at Ferguson.
  • (19) Of those, 80m are expected to be collected from stores or other handy locations such as lockers or post offices, according to Starkey.
  • (20) But anyway, it’s a handy guide for fathers-to-be whose attention might have drifted in antenatal classes: just do the opposite of whatever Robbie does, don’t hog the gas and air, and remember that it’s not all about you.

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