Essay vs Easy - What's the difference?
essay | easy |
A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
, author=Katie L. Burke
, title=Ecological Dependency
, volume=101, issue=1, page=64
, magazine=
(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
An attempt.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 455:
(dated) To try.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
To move forth, as into battle.
Comfortable; at ease.
* , chapter=16
, title= Requiring little skill or effort.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
* Alexander Pope
(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
In a relaxed or casual manner
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)
Something that is easy
to easy-oar (stop rowing)
As nouns the difference between essay and easy
is that essay is essay, usually on scientific, cultural or sociological subjects for publication in a newspaper or magazine while easy is something that is easy.As an adjective easy is
comfortable; at ease.As an adverb easy is
in a relaxed or casual manner.As a verb easy is
to easy-oar (stop rowing).essay
English
(wikipedia essay)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}
- This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
Derived terms
* photo essayVerb
(en verb)- He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.
Anagrams
*easy
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
- Rich people live in easy circumstances.
- an easy chair
- easy''' manners; an '''easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
- He gained their easy hearts.
- He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- The market is easy .
