(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.
Readability
Definition:
(n.) The state of being readable; readableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 185 with readable histology, 14.6% were clinically and histologically abnormal; 19.5% were clinically abnormal but histologically normal; and 15.7% were clinically normal and histologically abnormal.
(2) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(3) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
(4) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
(5) Now that these sequences have been identified for many genes and are available in computer-readable form, scientists can analyze these data and search for patterns in an attempt to learn more about the regulatory functions of the gene.
(6) Who knows, it may even be as readable as the real thing.
(7) To compare the readability and sensitivity of a new guaiac faecal occult blood test, HemoccultSENSA, with those of a standard guaiac-based test, Hemoccult, in a normal working environment.
(8) Health professionals can assist in the educational process if they have the tools to assess the readability of varied educational materials.
(9) Radiologic diagnosis and real diagnosis coincided to a relatively high degree provided that the radiographs were readable.
(10) It was ambitious, experimental and sometimes downright odd – but seductively, compulsively readable too.
(11) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
(12) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(13) A sample of health care literature produced for parents was analysed, using the Flesch method, for readability and human interest.
(14) With this new method, many samples were analyzed simultaneously, and readable results were obtained in 12 to 15 hr.
(15) Much of the row over the shortlist has stemmed from Rimington's own prioritisation of "readability" in the judging criteria.
(16) Each varied on a combination of the two study factors, but were similar in content, length, style, and readability.
(17) Latham is angry, outrageous, insulting – with a lifelong chip on his shoulder – as well as astute, brave and far more readable than most.
(18) The results of a subjective evaluation of readability of scintigrams with grades 1-5 are unequivocally more favourable for MDP and HEDP (2.3 and 2.4) against PYP (3.1).
(19) Rapid interrogation and analysis (in the form of tables or easily readable case listings) is possible, and the format of the database permits direct comparison with statistics for nonfatal hospital-treated accidents recorded by the Home Accident Surveillance System.
(20) The most common problems associated with high readability scores were the use of 'unfamiliar' words, long words and long sentences.