(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.
Skilful
Definition:
(a.) See Skilful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agüero’s run was as strong as it was skilful, beating four attempted tacklers in a drive into the penalty area that ended with him poking the ball past Ruddy as the goalkeeper came out to narrow the angle.
(2) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(3) "Let us give a warm welcome to this book," announced Douglas Hurd in the Daily Telegraph, "partly because it is a subtle and skilful narrative and partly because we in Britain still do not know what to make of General Charles de Gaulle ."
(4) But Jeff Koons, as hard and as skilfully as he may try, will never trump Blackpool prom in its full illuminated autumn evening glory.
(5) By contrast, skilful application of blood pressure measuring devices will increase one's understanding of blood pressure physiology, pathology, and response to treatment.
(6) My message to the Government is to build on the changing climate they have inspired and invest skilfully and generously in our urban fabric so that we can feel proud of our cities and proud of being a citizen.
(7) "We are lucky to have in Chris Blackhurst a skilful and highly respected journalist with long experience of both the Independent and the Standard and I thank him for what he has achieved as editor of the Independent.
(8) The defence is well structured and they have a quartet of forwards that are very fast, with one very skilful player like Musa.
(9) He was English history's most famous hunchback, but a sharp tailor and a skilful armourer may have disguised the curve in his spine, according to experts who examined the skeleton which has been identified as Richard III's.
(10) Christine Slottvedd Kimbriel, paintings conservator at the institute, said this showed the painting was much more skilfully executed than had been thought.
(11) Lewins’ skilful, driven documentary fills the void left by Ali’s silence with the voices of those who know him – his brother, one of his ex-wives, his business manager, his trainer, his son and daughters – and those who watched and wrote about him when he ruled the ring.
(12) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
(13) For while Morsi has skilfully negotiated the first major foreign policy crisis since the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime, that success masks a host of challenges ahead for him.
(14) They enjoy a spate of possession down the right wing starring an amazing cameo from Mills and his absurd mix of skilful jinks and hopeless close control.
(15) Neither is a household name in the way Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson were in the contest four years ago, but both are skilful and fluent politicians.
(16) The archbishops’ essays’ real value is their willingness to ask questions about the boundaries of society – something we desperately need at a time when democratic politics can seem an ever more skilful way of deciding questions that interest fewer and fewer people.
(17) In the way he played, he was the embodiment of a Manchester United player – fast, skilful, entertaining and determined to win by playing exciting football.
(18) Nevertheless, when he wrote that Waugh was "brave, generous, funny and an extremely skilful writer," it may not have been the whole story, but it was a large and true part of it.
(19) Instead, wrath is skilfully misdirected by this government towards immigrants or the unemployed.
(20) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).