handy
IPA: hˈændi
noun
- (childish) The hand.
- (MLE, slang) A handgun.
- (vulgar, slang) A hand job.
- (mostly used by Germans) Synonym of mobile phone
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
adjective
- Easy to use, useful.
- Nearby, within reach.
- Dexterous, skilful. (of a person)
- (slang) Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
- Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
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Examples of "handy" in Sentences
- Unfortunately I didn't have the title handy when I blogged about it.
- The ubiquitous term handy which every German speaker automatically assumes to be a genuine English term.
- The only time shutdown - a comes in handy is when there's a countdown timer on screen, started by Windows.
- There is a very interesting book on this subject, sorry don't have the title handy, google is your friend.
- We have a recording of this conversation, but I’ll keep your name handy so we’ll know who to blame if the facts in your article are wrong.
- Their efforts have come in handy for several young children, who reported that they knew how to react when they encountered fire in their own homes.
- A fun exercise for intro level physics students is to read a paper that came out in scientific American a few years ago I’m sorry but I don’t have the title handy on MOND.
- Another time this will come in handy is if you’re cooking at a friend’s home where they don’t stock the same spices that you do, and you’re trying to season a favorite dish.
- Where it really comes in handy is file open/save dialogs or any Explorer window — you can simply use the middle-click function to show the menu, and once you’ve selected something, Folder Menu will automatically navigate to the correct folder from within the dialog.
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