(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.
Leisurely
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
(adv.) In a leisurely manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reliability and concurrent validity of a simple questionnaire to assess leisure time physical activity has been investigated on 306 self-selected healthy adults of both sexes (163 M; 143 F).
(2) Symptom-limited maximal data were also collected and these are reported in relation to the energy requirements of some common leisure, occupational and domestic activities.
(3) In the 1970s a continuous increase of fat consumption and of cigarette consumption has been balanced by an increase of prevalence of controlled hypertensives, by an increase of leisure physical activity, by an increasing availability of coronary care units and consumption of beta-blockers.
(4) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
(5) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(6) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
(7) Howard Pridding, chief executive of the British Marine Federation, said: “The UK leisure marine industry has continued to grow and create new jobs, in spite of the challenging environment for exports caused by the weakness of the eurozone.
(8) Men in the lower employment grades were shorter, heavier for their height, had higher blood pressure, higher plasma glucose, smoked more, and reported less leisure-time physical activity than men in the higher grades.
(9) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(10) Such contracts are widely used by retailers, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(11) These factors explain around four-fifths of the overall pay gap between zero-hours workers and other employees.” Zero-hours contracts are widely used by retailers such as Sports Direct and JD Sports, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(12) Certain behavioral risk factors were more dominant among the seamen than among the control group (smoking level, alcohol consumption and lack of leisure-time physical activity).
(13) A subgroup of 63 persons who have access to and do avail themselves of computers on a regular basis (as leisure-time activity) also answered the "Computer-Motive-Questionnaire".
(14) The results of the study disclosed the positive effects of physical activity at leisure on blood pressure status and this was independent on weight and age.
(15) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
(16) Northern Ireland's minister of culture, arts and leisure, Nelson McCausland, supports a pilot taking place in the province and has suggested it could bring in £3m a year.
(17) The weekly titles will all be receiving new layout and design with a central section of common pages for the weeklies, drawn from the MEN's leisure and entertainment content.
(18) Properties in Garford Road, Rhyl, have been flooded and residents evacuated to Rhyl Leisure Centre where a rest centre has been set up by Denbighshire County Council.
(19) Quantitatively, the most important risk factors for total mortality were low physical activity during leisure time, tobacco smoking and elevated blood pressure.
(20) Physical strain may also have prophylactic effects, as physical leisure activity and muscular strength are negatively associated with the risk of low back pain.