Meaning of hand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A surname
3. The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
4. To make a handoff, as in football. Often used with off.
5. front foot
6. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
7. A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
8. To turn over to another.
9. round; hand
10. An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
11. To release or relinquish to another.
12. coat, lick
13. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
14. The set of cards held by a player.
15. To deliver (an indictment) to a higher judicial authority.
16. A round of a card game.
17. By or through the agency of: favors he received at the hands of his uncle.
18. A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
19. By using the hands; manually.
20. A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
    collective
21. To get possession of; acquire or obtain.
22. In linear measurement:
23. Four inches, a hand's breadth.
24. With concerted, never-ending effort: had to wait on them hand and foot.
25. Three inches.
    obsolete
26. On intimate terms or in close association: "The folklore of American academia says that publishing and teaching go hand in glove" (Edward B. Fiske).
27. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
28. In cooperation; jointly.
29. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
30. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
    especially, in-compounds
31. A performer more or less skilful.
32. An instance of helping.
33. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
34. A person's autograph or signature.
35. Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
36. Personal possession; ownership.
37. Management, domain, control.
    in-plural
38. A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
    colloquial
39. Applause.
40. A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
    historical
41. The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
42. A whole rhizome of ginger.
43. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
44. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
    archaic
45. Agency in transmission from one person to another.
    archaic
46. Rate; price.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Her hands are really strong.”

“I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.”

“Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.”

“The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.”

“I hear the clock a'ticking on the mantel shelf / See the hands a'moving, but I'm by myself”

“Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.”

“[…]on this hand and that hand were hangings[…]”

“For that the Proteſtants were then on the winning hand, it muſt needs be plain; who notwithſtanding the miſs of thoſe Forces which, at thir landing heer, maiſter’d without difficulty great part of Wales and Cheſhire, yet made a ſhift to keep thir ownw in Ireland.”

“My friend Will Honeycomb has told me, for above this half year, that he had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator, and that he would fain have one of his writing in my works.”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the Fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”

“Large farms need many farm hands.”

“But a Dictionary of this ſort, containing, as it were, a Natural Hiſtory, requires too many hands, as well as too much time, coſt, pains, and ſagacity, ever to be hoped for; and till that be done, we muſt content our ſelves with ſuch Definitions of the Names of Subſtances, as explain the ſenſe Men uſe them in.”

“For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.”

“an old hand at public speaking”

“I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.”

“At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.”

“Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.”

“What need have you of a hand who never fall?”

“The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.”

“a good hand”

“I ſay ſhe neuer did inuent this letter, / This is a mans inuention, and his hand.”

“[…]I have ſometimes known a Poet in Danger of being convicted as a Thief, upon much worſe Evidence than the Reſemblance of Hands hath been held to be in the Law.”

“[…]I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message[…]”

“'This is a strange note,' said Mr. Utterson; and then sharply, 'How do you come to have it open?' 'The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he threw it back to me like so much dirt,' returned Poole. 'This is unquestionably the doctor's hand, do you know?' resumed the lawyer. 'I thought it looked like it,' said the servant rather sulkily; and then, with another voice, 'But what matters hand of write,' he said. 'I've seen him!'”

“With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.”

“[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.”

“Who […] Haue paſt the armie of the mightie Turke: Bearing his priuie ſignet and his hand, To ſafe conduct vs thorow Affrica: […]”

“Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.”

“They once made Mourning and Fasting for the Death of the English Governor, who had given his Hand to come on such a Day to 'em, and neither came nor sent; believing, when a Man's Word was past, nothing but Death could or should prevent his keeping it: And when they saw he was not dead, they ask'd him what Name they had for a Man who promis'd a Thing he did not do?”

“Few would rely upon the word or oath of any man who had been known to break a hand-promise.”

“Receiving in hand one year’s tribute.”

“in safe hands”

“in good hands”

“He lost his job when the factory changed hands.”

“With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company.”

“With John in charge of the project, it's in good hands.”

“Foraſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet foorth in order a declaration of thoſe things which are moſt ſurely beleeued among vs[…]”

“It is my purpoſe to give a true and plain Account, of the Deſigns and Labours of a very great Philoſopher amongſt us; and to offer to the World, in ſome tollerable Method, thoſe Remains of his, which to that end, were put into my Hands.”

“But Albinus in thoſe troubleſome times enſuing under the ſhort reign of Pertinax and Didius Julianus, found means to keep in his hands the Government of Britain;”

“The method, in the hands of an experienced team of physicians and technicians, has become a relatively safe and useful procedure in the study of congenital heart disease and an accurate device for calculating cardiac output.”

“Just give me a minute - I haven't got any hands right now.”

“Give him a hand.”

““Give him a hand, Pendennis; you know every chap likes a hand,” Mr. Foker said; and the good-natured young gentleman, and Pendennis laughing, and the dragoons in the opposite box, began clapping hands to the best of their power.”

“A member of the gay male nuns' collective, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, received one of the biggest hands of the evening when he included in a benediction litany the chant that lesbians and gays be "delivered from both of Dianne's faces."”

“Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.”

“This fabric has a smooth, soft hand.”

“For both the fifth and sixth fabrics, I used tussah noils as weft. The effect that makes in the hand of the fabrics and their apparent weight is striking.”

“And Gideon ſaid vnto God, If thou wilt ſaue Iſrael by mine hand,[…]”

“They who thought they could never be ſecure in any Peace, except the King were firſt at their Mercy, and ſo obliged to accept the conditions they would give him, were willing to change the hand in carrying on the War: and many, who thought the Earl of Eſſex behaved himſelf too imperiouſly, were willing to have the Command in one who was more their equal.”

“to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new)”

“to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new)”

“It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand.”

“For Time is the meaſure of Buſineſſe, as Money is of Wares: And Buſineſſe is bought at a deare Hand, where there is ſmall diſpatch.”

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