hand meaning
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- A hand (med./lat.: manus, pl. manūs) is a prehensile, multi-fingered extremity located at the end of an arm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs.
- Fingers are some of the densest areas of nerve endings on the body, are the richest source of tactile feedback, and have the greatest positioning capability of the body; thus the sense of touch is intimately associated with hands.
- Some evolutionary anatomists use the term hand to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally — for example,
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- NounPLhandsSUF-and
- The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- Her hands are really strong.
- (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
- (heading) In linear measurement.
- Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- 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.
- An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.
- an old hand at speaking; large farms need many farm hands
- An instance of helping.
- Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- a good hand
- A person's signature.
- Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- Receiving in hand one year’s tribute.
- (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
- 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.
- (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
- Applause.
- Give him a hand.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- This fabric has a smooth, soft hand.
- (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
- 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.
- (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Rate; price.
- For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch.
- The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- VerbSGhandsPRhandingPT, PPhanded
- (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- to hand a lady into a carriage
- (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
- I bless my chain; I hand my oar. / Nor think on all I left on shore.
- (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
- (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The waiters were handing round champagne to the guests.
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
- On the other hand 1880 markers from spurious group account for 11.6% of total markers that exceed the range of 0.2–1.4% of markers prescribed[sic] to intravarietal heterogeneity.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
- Hand sections of the ascomatal wall were studied in 3% KOH. All measurements were made in Melzer’s reagent.
- Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- After his son's killer was let off without a conviction, the man decided to take the law into his own hands.
- The board discovered the problems after a couple of students paid to have their tests rescored by hand.
- Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hand in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "hand" is a noun, more specifically, a collective noun and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.