[
US
/ˈhænd/
]
[ UK /hˈænd/ ]
[ UK /hˈænd/ ]
NOUN
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a round of applause to signify approval
give the little lady a great big hand -
a position given by its location to the side of an object
objections were voiced on every hand -
a member of the crew of a ship
all hands on deck -
physical assistance
give me a hand with the chores -
a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
the big hand counts the minutes -
a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
the horse stood 20 hands -
ability
he wanted to try his hand at singing -
terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting -
a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
the hired hand fixed the railing
a ranch hand -
one of two sides of an issue
on the one hand..., but on the other hand... -
the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
he kept trying to see my hand
I didn't hold a good hand all evening -
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
he extended his mitt
he had the hands of a surgeon -
a card player in a game of bridge
we need a 4th hand for bridge -
something written by hand
his hand was illegible
she recognized his handwriting
VERB
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place into the hands or custody of
He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
hand me the spoon, please
Turn the files over to me, please -
guide or conduct or usher somewhere
hand the elderly lady into the taxi
How To Use hand In A Sentence
- But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
- The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
- Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
