Agility meaning

Noun: agility

Pronunciation: (u’ji-li-tee)

Agility meaning: The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.

Synonyms: legerity, lightness, nimbleness, lightsomeness

Quotations: Michael Hugos – Agility means that you are faster than your competition. Agile time frames are measured in weeks and months, not years.

Dallas Willard – No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.

Jay Fulcher – Our customers range from small startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, and span industries such as electronics and high tech, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods. One major theme that has emerged from the majority of our customers is how they can better manage product innovation and development while competing in an increasingly global economy. Agility 2006 will provide our customers and partners with the opportunity to participate in discussions and debates on globalization, compliance and innovation. Industry leaders and business executives will also have the opportunity to share their future business strategies, and learn how PLM will enable them to gain and maintain leadership in their markets.

Rainer Maria Rilke – Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

Jean Baudrillard – As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

Charles Baudelaire – As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, then they fall down the curtains.

Sample sentences:

1. I take it on as a challenge. There’s no big guy in this league that can stay with me and has more agility than me.
2. I feel like I can do everything. The agility is not quite as good as it was.
3. It is the only physical agility test in the United States that is held up in court. It is designed to be friendly to diversity. It’s a diverse and fair entrance exam.
4. During the past 15 days, my knee has been feeling great, I was out on the track doing sprints, agility movements, throwing and exercises to help increase my stamina. Even with some fluid remaining, my knee has been handling the pressure and I’ve been able to work through it.
5. There literally is no other aircraft in the world that can give you the speed and range of an airplane with the vertical agility of a helicopter.
6. So we have to, within the law and within all the requirements of our professional ethics in this profession, develop agility. And that means putting a lot of judgment in the hands of individuals overseas.
7. He’s on the verge of something special. He’s a power runner who has the quickness and the agility to make people miss.
8. Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.
9. He’s done everything we’ve asked him to do. He’s done his agility work. But again, most of it’s been controlled. But he’s handled everything we’ve asked very well. There’s no swelling in his knee. That was the whole idea.
10. Throwing off the mound has never been a problem throughout this whole thing. The running and fielding his position is our biggest concern. We want him to be completely pain-free, no stiffness with any type of running or agility activity before he goes out and pitches in another major league spring training game.