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hand - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting of the wrist, palm, four fingers, and an opposable thumb.
- noun A homologous or similar part in other animals, as the terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates.
- noun A unit of length equal to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters), used especially to specify the height of a horse.
- noun Something suggesting the shape or function of the human hand, especially.
- noun Any of the rotating pointers used as indexes on the face of a mechanical clock.
- noun A pointer, as on a gauge or dial.
- noun Lateral direction indicated according to the way in which one is facing.
- noun A style or individual sample of writing.
- noun A signature.
- noun A round of applause to signify approval.
- noun Physical assistance; help.
- noun Sports A hand ball in soccer.
- noun The cards held in a card game by a given player at any time.
- noun The number of cards dealt each player; the deal.
- noun A player or participant in a card game.
- noun A portion or section of a game during which all the cards dealt out are played.
- noun One who performs manual labor.
- noun One who is part of a group or crew.
- noun A participant in an activity, often one who specializes in a particular activity or pursuit.
- noun The degree of immediacy of a source of information; degree of reliability.
- noun The strength or force of one's position.
- noun Possession, ownership, or keeping.
- noun Power; jurisdiction; care.
- noun Involvement or participation.
- noun An influence or effect.
- noun Evidence of craft or artistic skill.
- noun An aptitude or ability.
- noun The aesthetic feel or tactile quality of something, such as a fabric, textile, or carpeting, that indicates its fineness, texture, and durability.
- noun A manner or way of performing something.
- noun Permission or a promise, especially a pledge to wed.
- noun A commitment or agreement, especially when sealed by a handshake; one's word.
- intransitive verb To give or pass with or as if with the hands; transmit.
- intransitive verb To aid, direct, or conduct with the hands.
- intransitive verb Nautical To roll up and secure (a sail); furl.
- intransitive verb To give (the ball) directly to a teammate, as in football. Often used with off.
- intransitive verb To carry, strike, or propel (the ball) with the hand or arm in violation of the rules in soccer.
- intransitive verb To make a handoff, as in football. Often used with off.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old English.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, from Old English hand ("hand, side (in defining position), power, control, possession, charge, agency, person regarded as holder or receiver of something"), from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”) (compare Dutch, Swedish hand, German Hand, West Frisian hân), from Proto-Germanic *hinþanan (compare Old Swedish hinna 'to gain', Gothic frahinþan 'to take captive, capture'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-, *ḱemt- 'to grasp' (compare Latvian sīts 'hunting spear', Ancient Greek κεντέω ("prick"), Albanian çandër 'pitchfork, prop').
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Examples
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“Raise your hand if you thought that Tigh and Adama were going to kiss each other when they were hugging over the death of Liam.” *raises hand* That had me hysterically laughing in my hotel room.
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On the one hand, there\'s Obama\'s \ "open hand\" approach that rewards the unclenched fist with a handshake.
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So I introduced myself and shook his hand * sniffs hand* and he actually repeated my name * sigh* and I thought I really was going to faint!
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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Which is, I think, appropriate to think about here in this town — because here, the highest hopes of mankind work hand in hand with the deepest cynicism of man.
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Her head and throat and stomach and her hand, her hand, _her hand_ hurt.
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The man is to receive the ring from the priest with the three principal fingers of the right hand; and then, holding the _right hand_ of the bride with his own left hand, he shall say, "With this ring," &c.
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Thus: -- sē miscet virīs, _he mingles with the men_; contendis Homērō, _you contend with Homer_; dextrae dextram jungere, _to clasp hand with hand_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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I can say that I've never had a moment's uneasiness by (_beating her knee with her hand, stick in left hand_) telling the truth.
Mr. Pim Passes By 1919
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If, on the other hand -- pshaw! there _is no other hand_ in such a case.
Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895
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-- Comp.nom. sg. sīo swīðre hand (_the right hand_),
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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- John Hancock
- X
- abalienate
- ability
- accessible
- acclaim
- acclamation
- accomplished fact
- accomplishment
- ace
- achievement
- act
- acta
- action
- administration
- adventure
- agency
- agent
- aid
- alien
- alienate
- amortize
- angle
- animals
- appendage
- applause
- approaching
- arm
- arrow
- aspect
- assign
- assist
- assistance
- at hand
- auspices
- authority
- autograph
- autography
- bakehead
- bank
- barter
- beam
- being
- bequeath
- best bower
- big hand
- black gang
- blaze
- blow
- blue-collar worker
- body
- boilerman
- boost
- border
- bough
- bower
- branch
- breadwinner
- broadside
- buck
- bungs
- burst of applause
- cabin boy
- calligraphy
- cards
- care
- carte blanche
- casual
- casual laborer
- cat
- cede
- chap
- character
- charge
- cheek
- cheer
- chips
- chirography
- chop
- christcross
- cipher
- circulate
- clap
- clapping
- clapping of hands
- claws
- close
- close by
- closely
- clubs
- clutches
- coast
- come across with
- comfort
- command
- commissary steward
- common laborer
- compass needle
- complement
- conduct
- confer
- connivingly
- consign
- control
- convenient
- convey
- countermark
- countersign
- countersignature
- counterstamp
- coup
- coöperate
- creature
- crib
- cross
- cure
- custodianship
- custody
- customer
- day laborer
- deal out
- dealings
- deck
- deckhand
- deckie
- deed
- deed over
- deliver
- deliver over
- demise
- deuce
- device
- devolve upon
- dexterity
- diamonds
- digits
- direction
- direction post
- disburse
- dish out
- dispense
- disposal
- disposition
- disseminate
- distribute
- doing
- doings
- dole out
- domination
- dominion
- duck
- dummy
- earthling
- easily
- eclat
- effort
- effortlessly
- empery
- empire
- employee
- encore
- endeavor
- endorsement
- enfeoff
- enterprise
- exchange
- exploit
- face cards
- facet
- factory worker
- fait accompli
- fangs
- feat
- feed
- fellow
- find
- finger post
- fingernails
- fingers
- fireman
- fist
- flank
- flush
- fork over
- forward
- free lance
- free-lancer
- full house
- full-time worker
- furl
- gest
- give
- give in
- give out
- give over
- give title to
- give up
- go
- governance
- government
- graphanalysis
- graphology
- graphometry
- grasp
- grip
- gripe
- groundling
- guardianship
- guidance
- guide
- guideboard
- guidepost
- gun loader
- gunner
- guy
- hand
- hand down
- hand in
- hand in glove
- hand in hand
- hand on
- hand out
- hand over
- handclap
- handclapping
- handedness
- handfast
- handiwork
- hands
- hands down
- handwriting
- handy
- haunch
- head
- hearts
- helm
- help
- helping hand
- hip
- hold
- homo
- hooks
- hospital steward
- hour hand
- human
- human being
- imminent
- imp
- in cahoots
- in collusion
- in league
- index
- index finger
- indicator
- individual
- industrial worker
- influence
- initials
- intimately
- involvement
- iron hand
- jack
- jaws
- job
- jobber
- jobholder
- joint
- jointly
- joker
- jowl
- jurisdiction
- keeping
- king
- knave
- laborer
- laboring man
- landing signalman
- laterality
- lead
- left bower
- leg
- leg up
- life
- lift
- like mad
- limb
- link
- living soul
- lobe
- lobule
- lubber line
- mail orderly
- make over
- man
- manage
- management
- mandibles
- maneuver
- manus
- manuscript
- many-sidedness
- mark
- mark of signature
- mastership
- mastery
- maxillae
- measure
- meathooks
- member
- menial
- mete out
- migrant
- milepost
- ministry
- minute hand
- mitts
- moiler
- monogram
- mortal
- move
- multilaterality
- nails
- navigator
- navvy
- near
- nearby
- needle
- negotiate
- nippers
- nose
- obsolete
- of
- offer
- office temporary
- offshoot
- oiler
- on hand
- one
- operation
- operative
- organ
- ovation
- oversight
- overt act
- ownership
- pack
- pair
- paleography
- palm
- part
- participation
- party
- pass
- pass on
- pass out
- pass over
- passage
- pastorage
- pastorate
- pastorship
- patronage
- paw
- pencraft
- penmanship
- penscript
- performance
- person
- personage
- personality
- picture cards
- pincers
- pinion
- planking
- plaudit
- playing cards
- pointer
- popularity
- possession
- pounces
- power
- present
- present to
- price
- proceeding
- production
- proffer
- profile
- proletarian
- protectorship
- provide
- purser
- qualifier
- quarter
- queen
- quickly
- radio operator
- raj
- ramification
- rapidly
- rate
- reach
- readily
- regnancy
- reign
- reins of government
- relief
- render
- res gestae
- resign
- round
- round of applause
- roustabout
- royal flush
- rubber
- ruff
- rule
- runner
- safe hands
- salaried worker
- scion
- script
- scription
- scrive
- seal
- seize
- self-employed person
- sell
- servant
- settle
- settle on
- share
- shoot
- shore
- side
- siding
- sigil
- sign away
- sign manual
- sign over
- signature
- signboard
- signet
- signpost
- single
- singleton
- skill
- snip
- snips
- some
- somebody
- someone
- soul
- sovereignty
- spades
- sparks
- speedily
- spray
- sprig
- spur
- steadily
- step
- steward
- stewardess
- stewardship
- stiff
- stoker
- straight
- stroke
- stunt
- stylography
- submit
- subscription
- succor
- supervision
- supply
- support
- surrender
- sway
- swiftly
- switch
- tail
- talons
- teeth
- tellurian
- temple
- temporary
- tender
- tendril
- terran
- thing
- thing done
- thunder of applause
- to hand
- together
- toiler
- torpedoman
- touch
- tour de force
- trade
- transaction
- transfer
- transmit
- trey
- trick
- trump
- turn
- turn over
- tutelage
- twig
- undertaking
- unguals
- ungulae
- unilaterality
- visa
- vise
- wage earner
- wage slave
- wageworker
- ward
- wardenship
- wardship
- watch
- watch and ward
- will
- wing
- work
- worker
- workgirl
- workhand
- working girl
- workingman
- workingwoman
- workman
- workmanship
- works
- worldling
- yeoman
- yield
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hypernyms (20)
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same context (31)
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cross-references (131)
Cross-references
- a cool hand
- a heavy hand
- a helping hand
- a high hand
- a light hand
- a side hand
- a slack hand
- a strict hand
- a taut hand
- ability
- aff hands
- agency
- all hands
- an old hand
- at first hand
- at hand
- at no hand
- at second hand
- baronet's hand
- behind the hand
- black hand
- blood-red hand
- bloody hand
- book hand
- broken hand
- buddha's-hand
- by hand
- by the strong hand
- clean hands
- control
- elder hand
- employee
- finishing hand to
- first hand
- for one's own hand
- from hand to hand
- from hand to mouth
- full hand
- give me your hands
- guidonian hand
- hand and glove
- hand and thigh
- hand in and out
- hand in hand
- hand of glory
- hand over hand
- hand over head
- hand running
- hand to hand
- hands
- hands of
- hands off
- handwriting
- harmonic hand
- heel of the hand
- hot at hand
- imposition of hands
- in any hand
- in hand
- index finger
- large hand
- laying on of hands
- light in hand
- middle finger
- near hand
- of all hands
- of his hands
- off one's hands
- on all hands
- on hand
- on the mending hand
- out of hand
- ownership
- palm
- pat hand
- pinky
- pointer
- red hand
- right hand
- right hand of fellowship
- ring finger
- side
- signature
- small hand
- the upper hand
- thumb
- tie hand and foot
- to bear a hand
- to change hand
- to change hands
- to clap hands
- to come to hand
- to cross one's hand
- to force one's hand
- to get hand
- to give one's hand
- to hand down
- to hand over
- to have a hand in
- to have in hand
- to have one's hand in
- to have one's hand on one's halfpenny
- to have one's hand out
- to have one's hands full
- to have the higher hand
- to hold hand with
- to hold hands together
- to hold in hand
- to hold up one's hands
- to hold up the hands of
- to lay hands on
- to lend a hand
- to live by one's hands
- to make a hand
- to one's hand
- to pour water on the hands
- to put forth one's hand against
- to put one's hand to
- to set hand to fist
- to set the hand to
- to shake hands
- to show one's hand
- to strike hands
- to take by the hand
- to take in hand
- to try one's hand
- to wash one's hands of
- under one's hand
- upon one's hands
- within one's hand
- worker
rhymes (45)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Grande
- Land
- Marchand
- Rand
- Sand
- Strand
- and
- band
- banned
- bland
- brand
- canned
- command
- demand
- disband
- expand
- fanned
- firsthand
- gland
- grand
- grande
- land
- lande
- lefthand
- manned
- meadowland
- misunderstand
- offhand
- outmanned
- panned
- planned
- rand
- remand
- righthand
- sand
- scanned
- shand
- spanned
- stand
- strand
- tanned
- understand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- withstand
yarb commented on the word hand
And in a cryptic academic hand:
'"Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantumn" 15s 6d.'
- Peter Reading, '"Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantumn" 15s 6d.', from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008
brobbins commented on the word hand
from God, rod
July 23, 2009
bilby commented on the word hand
After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul ...
- Veronica A. Shoffstall, 'You Learn'.
July 26, 2009