Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.
- adj. Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion; apt or ready to move; brisk; active: said of the mind as well as of the body.
- Synonyms Nimble, Agile (see nimble), quick, lively, alert, supple, spry.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. mentally quick
- adj. moving quickly and lightly
Etymologies
- French, from Latin agilis, from agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.”
“- "Ok, so you don't like the term agile … but I'm more than happy to use it to describe what I see is way forward for GIS mapping.”
“We decide to use the term agile to describe this new breed of, setting out the values and principles of these agile processes.”
“It's closely related to what they call agile (or rapid) program development.”
“I was only challenging the Blogger to his "Agile Mapping" title and the first line of information that suggested that with this example we were to conclude "agile mapping is where we need to be" … Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.”
“Another level could be called "agile big data," whose concern is solving a different class of problems and allows more experimentation.”
“The terms agile or waterfall tend to be used rather than any mention of Toyota (although I am aware of one source that talks about kanban software development) but the concepts of managing by walking around, standardized work, the worker stopping the assembly line, the extended supplier community supplying parts just in time and so forth sounds a lot like community forums, rapid application development,”
“He is the guy they think of when they used the word agile - responsive, adaptable to new requirements.”
“And I thought it was worth mentioning that General Franks used the word "agile" -- am I hearing the sirens going off there?”
“Unless you’re equating premature release with agile, which shouldn’t be the case unless agile is poorly implemented (which, unfortunately, it frequently is).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘agile’.
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 315 more...
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Skilled
precise, dexterous, expert, crafty, adept, proficient, agile, artful, qualified, capable, talented, facile and 1 more...
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Light!
lambent, scintillant, refulgent, lucent, agile, gossamery, clarion, luminary, heliograph, lodestar, pharos, heliotrope
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
maesepedro also a project management approach for software development May 14, 2009
jeen0809 The basketball players are very agile. Mar 30, 2007