(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.
Fast
Definition:
(v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
(v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
(v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
(v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
(v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
(v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
(v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
(v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
(v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
(v.) Tenacious; retentive.
(v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
(v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
(v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
(a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
(a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
(n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
(n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(8) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
(9) Glucose metabolic rates during control and reperfusion were unchanged for hearts from fasted rats, but decreased for hearts from fed rats during reperfusion.
(10) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(11) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(12) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.
(13) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(14) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(15) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(16) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(17) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(18) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(19) Plasma and red cell sorbitol concentrations, fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb) were evaluated in 30 diabetic patients and 42 normal subjects.
(20) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.