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Meaning hand meaning

What does hand mean?
Definitions in simple English

hand Noun

— Your hands are the parts of your body at the end of your arms. A hand has four fingers and a thumb. Mother, I'm afraid, please hold my hand. — Clock hands are pointed needles that show what time it is. The long hand is pointing to the 4, which refers to how many hours have passed. The short hand is pointing to the 7, which refers to how many groups of 5 minutes have passed. The time is therefore 4:35.

hand Verb

— If I hand you something, I give it to you. Please hand me that tool. I can't reach it.

hand

— noun (= mitt) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb he had the hands of a surgeon he extended his mitt — verb (= turn over) place into the hands or custody of hand me the spoon, please Turn the files over to me, please He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers — noun (= hired hand) a hired laborer on a farm or ranch the hired hand fixed the railing a ranch hand — noun (= handwriting) something written by hand she recognized his handwriting his hand was illegible — noun ability he wanted to try his hand at singing — noun a position given by its location to the side of an object objections were voiced on every hand — noun one of two sides of an issue on the one hand..., but on the other hand... — noun the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time I didn't hold a good hand all evening he kept trying to see my hand — noun a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece the big hand counts the minutes — noun 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 — Springfield (Mass.) Union — noun physical assistance give me a hand with the chores — noun a round of applause to signify approval give the little lady a great big hand — noun a member of the crew of a ship all hands on deck — noun a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses the horse stood 20 hands — verb guide or conduct or usher somewhere hand the elderly lady into the taxi — noun a card player in a game of bridge we need a 4th hand for bridge

Synonyms hand synonyms

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hand English » English

arm give worker pass labourer operative workman working man laborer handwriting hand over finger pointer needle palm fingers help convey reach script indicator wing side mitt hands deliver deal suspend skill serve quarter present paw pass on hired man hired hand employee direction bridge player assistance aide aid ability turn over support send possession palm of hand ovation offer

Topics hand topics

What do people use hand to talk about?
Person Body Limb

Arm
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Card game
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Work and occupation Work

Worker
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing fruit

Growing bananas
Work and occupation Agriculture

Farm worker
States Time Aspectual time Age

Old, not new
Grammar

Connected with, related
Person Life Die

Inherit
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Gossip
Language and thought Communication Story

Verbal tradition
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Help
Social behavior Law Trial

Take oath
Social behavior Law Judge, render a verdict

Condemn, find guilty
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Betray
Work and occupation Work Worker

Expert
Work and occupation Work Difficult, impossible

Advantage
Work and occupation Work

Made by hand
Work and occupation Finance

Share wealth
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Hire, rent
Work and occupation Business organization

Work for someone
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Crawl
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lower something
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Touch
Physical actions Have, be with

Give, hand to
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
Physical actions

Break, wear out
States Quantity Enough

Remain, remainder
States Big Distance

Near
Grammar General words Do

Make
Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Personally

  • What words are used to indicate that you make something yourself rather than using a machine?
    by hand
Grammar Case Semantically similar events

With, do with someone
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

But
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Prompters of attention

Conjugation hand conjugation

How do you conjugate hand?

hand · verb

Examples hand examples

How do I use hand in a sentence?

Simple sentences

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
Could you hand me the newspaper on the table?
I burned my hand with an iron.
Show me what you have in your left hand.
Raise your hand before you answer.
The cat scratched my hand.
He weighed the stone in his hand.
They looked forward to a time when they would no longer have to live from hand to mouth.
She has flowers in her hand.
She used to live hand to mouth.
He knows the area like the back of his hand.
Your hand is as cold as ice.
She took me by the hand.
The dog bit my hand.
He's an old hand.
If you are free, give me a hand.
What is that thing in your right hand?
You'll see the bank on the left hand side of the hospital.
A student raised his hand when the teacher finished the reading.
The thief forced her to hand over the money.
You have to raise your hand if you want to speak at the meeting.
You bit the hand that fed you.
All students of English should have a good English-English dictionary at hand.
Raise your right hand.
You write a very good hand.
The airport is close at hand.
After an awkward pause, Bill took her by the hand and dragged her upstairs.
The stockholders are making money hand over fist.
We have much rain in summer but on the other hand we have little rain in winter.

Movie subtitles

Let go of her hand.
Take your hand off, get out!
Will the Japan they hand over have any value?
Nebuchadnezzar is sleeping in the Ieft-hand corner of the screen. - NIALL: Oh, yes.
The rise of the clock, and later the portable watch, went hand in hand with the rise of Europe and the spread of Western civilization.
And if either of you lays a hand on her.
On the other hand, on a world much colder than the Earth, water can only exist as ice, and we have another problem.
Hold this in your left hand and put your right hand on your waist.
Ha ha! All right, old guy, Hand over your money and you won't get hurt.
Or you could hand over your money And ywon't get hurt.
I'll call as soon as I hand her over to the Burns Team.
So, Hubert, you want to bite the hand that fed you?
They're amazed by sleight of hand.
You want to bite the hand that fed you?
I came to ask you for Jeanne's hand, officially.
Take your hand off.
Are they planning to try for the upper hand by swooping in and taking Ivan away?
We can't hand her over to you. What?
Since we can't fully trust the United Nations, it would be better not to hand that over.
Hand over what Lucy Davenport brought you right now.
You hand us over!
He is to hand us over to those lousy citizens!
A Count Andrae Vitelozzo Tamare offers heart and hand.
There I saw a hand which dug its nails in healthy flesh and another plucked with gentle fingers a twig, growing out of green bushes.
And, oh, have you ever, like, held a girl's hand while eating a PBJ?
I'll do it if you let me put my hand in your back pocket for 15 seconds.
All I could think about was putting my hand in her back pocket.
A hand.
Scott can respect their situation, and knows that, you know, the offer at hand of them becoming a werewolf sounds like a really cool thing, but knows that it just is not. It'll mess up their life.
Please see me as one who is able to proceed hand in hand with Your Majesty.
Give me your hand.
The ability to find out just by brushing against the tip of a hand. That would be nice.
WE'VE GOT HIM SO WORRIED THIS OLIVER KID WAS TAKING HIS CASH, HE'S JUST GONNA HAND IT TO US.
Just put it in my hand? Just place it inside my hand.

News and current affairs

Forest clearing, on the other hand, is probably best stopped by economic incentives, perhaps combined with regulatory limits.
On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.
The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga: corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.
Likewise, in an age when corporate lobbyists have a free hand in shaping - if not drafting - public policies, many people believe, again rightly, that their elected officials no longer represent them.
On the other hand, the move sets a worrying precedent, injecting politics into a policy area that had been governed by objective economic considerations.
Of course, excuses are at hand: the magnitude of the economic downturn was not anticipated and the increased expenditures to fight terrorism could not be foretold.
The world's advice givers might try to keep this in mind when offering to help leaders of distant countries that are grappling with problems with which the adviser has little or no first-hand experience.
Greece, on the other hand, is under the influence of a strong import lobby.
Allowing opium traffickers to operate with impunity gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.
Therefore, security and development must go hand in hand.
Such campaigns go hand-in-hand with expanded farming, because sellers of these foods prefer nearby growers - even if these growers increasingly live in the city.
On both occasions, however, the regime's hardliners gained the upper hand, crushing prospects for reform.
On the one hand, the Court's actions often have political consequences: however well-founded, accusing the leader of a rebel army may be seen as taking sides in a conflict.
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge - or refrain from charging - a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
The long history of Africa's exploitation demands that this concern not be dismissed out of hand.
Euro-skepticism, on the other hand, and the looming threat of anti-European populism, is directly linked to the idea that the EU is not merely incapable of offering a solution to the crisis, but in fact is part of the problem.
In conferring on Liu one of the world's highest honors, the Committee would be signaling once again the importance of human rights and democracy on the one hand, and world peace and international solidarity on the other.

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