(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.
Hendy
Definition:
(a.) See Hende.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bishop told reporters she was aware Hansen was attending “a drinks night” at the Coalition MP Peter Hendy’s house.
(2) Now, though, the rallying call is financial freedom for cities: Hendy joined counterparts in Manchester last week to herald a report commissioned from economists Volterra to show that devolving more powers would tackle “damaging underinvestment” and bear fruit in economic growth and jobs.
(3) Hendy also denied that problems with high temperatures affecting overhead powerlines had prevented Greater Anglia trains stopping at Stratford .
(4) Maybe Sir Peter Hendy might also be pleased that London is moving in the direction of Mumbai.
(5) At least eight MPs and senators, including Mitch Fifield, Arthur Sinodinos, Mal Brough and Wyatt Roy – who were all promoted after Turnbull took office – engaged in the late-night meeting at MP Peter Hendy’s home in Queanbeyan the night before Abbott was rolled, the book said.
(6) Hendy said he believed the action would have little effect.
(7) The gross chemical composition, protein content and amino acid composition of mango stone kernels of four Egyptian varieties (Ewsi, Hendi, Fonso and Timour) were investigated.
(8) Hendy is openly lampooned on stage, with an empty seat bearing his name.
(9) Former Howard aide Peter Hendy won the seat in 2013 with a margin of just 1,085 votes from moustachioed Labor incumbent Mike Kelly.
(10) One NUJ insider said that legal discussions with two leading QCs, John Hendy and Geoffrey Robertson, were ongoing and that they were examining the possibility of a group legal action against News Corp's management and standards committee.
(11) Peter Hendy, the Transport for London commissioner, said that while he was "sorry that two lines serving the Park went down" the problems proved there was enough "redundancy" in the system to cope.
(12) The previous London transport commissioner Peter Hendy warned for years of the mayhem to be expected at Euston when thousands of HS2 passengers pour into an already overcrowded rail terminus.
(13) Wapping insiders have approached the National Union of Journalists about the challenge and the union is talking to two leading QCs, John Hendy and Geoffrey Robertson, about the possibility of a group legal action.
(14) Cory Bernardi raises prospect of Liberal party split over Malcolm Turnbull win Read more Key Turnbull supporters were rewarded, including Mitch Fifield as communications minister, Simon Birmingham as education minister, Mal Brough as special minister of state, Peter Hendy as assistant minister for productivity, Wyatt Roy as assistant minister for innovation and Ken Wyatt as assistant minister for health.
(15) The rfb gene cluster of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3, responsible for the biosynthesis of the O side chain, was previously cloned, and a Y. enterocolitica O:3 side chain-specific bacteriophage (phi YeO3-12) was isolated (A. Al-Hendy, P. Toivanen, and M. Skurnik, Microb.
(16) Hendy said the problems proved there was enough "redundancy" in the system to cope.
(17) According to London’s transport commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy, such control is integral to creating a successful system and a thriving city, even if the capital “got the powers by accident”.
(18) It’s the job of a member of parliament, especially when you’re drawing a salary paid for by taxpayers, to front up to hear every message the community wants to give you, whether it’s a comfortable or uncomfortable one.” Still, given the hostility on display to the government’s position, it’s perhaps understandable that Hendy didn’t show up.
(19) A few weeks after Brendan Nelson beat him for the dog-days job of leading a demoralised Liberal Party after its 2007 election loss, Malcolm Turnbull called Nelson’s new chief of staff Peter Hendy.
(20) However, the transport secretary, Justine Greening, and the Transport for London commissioner, Peter Hendy, said it proved the resilience of the system.