Meaning of one-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having only one hand.
   not-comparable
2. Performed using only one hand.
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3. Designed for use with one hand
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4. Pornographic in nature.
   not-comparable, specifically
5. That uses one hand.
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6. Involving the actions of only one person.
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7. Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.
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Equivalents

Examples

“And who said the one-handed guy couldn't be self-sufficient? Certainly not his physical therapist, Gus, who led him to believe⟳ he'd be as good as new with a spaceage prosthesis and a crapload of physical and occupational therapy.”

“Note⟳ that we can represent⟳ any cyclic event with a one-handed clock.”

“A one-handed save⟳ by Wojciech Szczesny prevented Darren Pratley giving Bolton an early lead⟳ and Arsenal looked short of ideas in a goalless first half.”

“If either movement or speed⟳ around the court is a weakness, the one-handed backhand may be the best choice because of the extra reach⟳.”

“The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select⟳ body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.”

“... Boys sexual content mostly consists of a series of violent and less than titillating homosexual assaults. Word of mouth among the one-handed' readership would not have⟳ been good.”

““If it failed for me, it was only as smut; the book, at least in large black and white photocopy form⟳, was not a one-handed read⟳.”

“The one-handed shooter, the target⟳ man who fires the national match⟳ course, turns about 45 degrees from the target⟳, separates his feet about the same distance, fully extends his hand, locking the elbow, and with head and body erect looks over the sights.”

“I don't think⟳ she knew what a relief that was, because I would have⟳ been poor help⟳ for Ralph as a one-handed crew.”

“Holding intercourse with Sir William at this date⟳ partook a good deal⟳ of the nature of a one-handed conversation, and the one-handedness seemed to increase⟳ when the only share⟳ of the host⟳, in the post-prandial conviviality, consisted in passing the decanters, which Sir William was scrupulous to do.”

“Because of the m-phenylene linkage along the polymer main chain, the inherent propensity to generate⟳ foldamers has been explored in several ways, and the induction of one-handed polymer helicity been achieved.”

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