Efficiently
[ɪ'fɪʃəntli]
Definition
(adv.) with efficiency; in an efficient manner; 'he functions efficiently'.
Editor: Rae--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) With effect; effectively.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These metal layers conduct current to or from the active nickel hydrate in all parts of the tube very efficiently. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This model was kept first at G?ttingen and afterward at Hanover, but it did not act efficiently, as the gears were not cut with sufficient accuracy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I think we shall see that it can act most efficiently. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I want a wife: the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely till death. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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