What's the difference between easy and handy?

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.

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.