Definition of hand- in English English dictionary
- Hand- combines with past participles to indicate that something has been made by someone using their hands or using tools rather than by machines. handcrafted jewelry. handbuilt cars
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-egg
- A humorous term for the game of American football, or for football codes other than association football
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-egg
- The elongated ball used in such games
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-eye coordination
- The total amount of coordination a person has between their eyes and their hands; a person's dexterity in activities highly dependent upon sight, such as catching a ball
Sorry, but I just don't think you have the hand-eye coordination needed to be a juggler in this circus.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held
- a personal digital assistant
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held
- small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-hole
- : A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-in-glove
- Alternative spelling of hand in glove
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-in-glove
- Closely cooperative
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-in-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- Alternative spelling of hand in hand
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- An item that is passed along for someone else to use; especially, a piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by a older sibling and passed down to a younger one
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- A pass made in a backward direction
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-picked
- specially selected because of their individual characteristics or talents
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-picked
- picked by hand rather than by machinery
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-puppet
- Attributive form of hand puppet
hand-puppet creator.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-spring
- A variant spelling of handspring
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-tight
- As tight as can be made by the strength of one's hand wielding a standard tool: that is, without special equipment or leverage
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- Close together, within arm's reach
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- Especially, fighting done within reach rather than at range. May or may not indicate unarmed combat
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth
- having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty
She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-waving
- Alternative spelling of hand waving
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-work
- variant of handiwork
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-wringing
- Alternative spelling of hand wringing
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-eye coordination
- Hand-eye (alternatively eye-hand) coordination refers to the control of eye movement and the processing of visual input to guide bodily movement. This has been studied in activities as diverse as tea making, the movement of solid objects such as wooden blocks, sporting performance, music reading, and copy-typing
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth
- (deyim) Having or providing only the bare essentials
A hand-to-mouth existence.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-crafted
- made by hand or a hand process; "delicate handmade baby dresses"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-eye co-ordination
- the way in which your hands and eyes work together, especially in sport, so that you can throw, hit, and catch a ball
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-fed
- {s} fed by hand
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-feed
- {f} feed an animal or a person by hand; feed an animal food portions at regular fixed intervals; feed material into a machine manually
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held
- small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands; "a hand-held computer
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held
- small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands; "a hand-held computer"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held
- A hand-held device such as a camera or a computer is small and light enough to be used while you are holding it. Saivonsac shot the entire film with a hand-held camera. Hand-held is also a noun. Users will be able to use their hand-helds to check their bank accounts. a hand-held machine is small enough to hold in your hand when you use it
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-held computer
- a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-loomed
- made on a handloom; "handwoven tablecloth"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-loomed
- made on a handloom; "handwoven tablecloth
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- passed on from one person to another; "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- Hand-me-down is used to describe things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use. Most of the boys wore hand-me-down military shirts from their fathers. a piece of clothing which has been used by someone and then given to another person
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- Hand-me-downs are things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use. Edward wore Andrew's hand-me-downs
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- outgrown garment passed down from one person to another passed on from one person to another; "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-me-down
- outgrown garment passed down from one person to another
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-mixer
- hand held kitchen implement for mixing ingredients
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- The transfer of a call from one cell site to another as the mobile or portable phone moves through the service area Unnoticeable by the user
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- In a cellular network, refers to the process of terminating communications with one cell and establishing communications with an adjacent cell when a mobile user travels between cells Hand-offs normally involve switching from one pair of frequencies to another
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- a running play where the quarterback hands the ball to a back
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-off
- Typically used to describe the ability of a wireless network to pass the network connection of a roaming device from one connection point to another, without dropping the network connection
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-operated
- operated by hand
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-over
- The process by which a call is automatically handed from one BTS to another while the subscriber is moving
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-over
- The passing of a call signal from one base station to the next as the user moves out of range or the network software re-routes the call
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-over
- As you move, the network transfers the handling of a call from one cell to another The process happens automatically
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-pick
- pick personally and very carefully; "the director hand-picked his new team
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-pick
- pick personally and very carefully; "the director hand-picked his new team"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-pick
- If someone is hand-picked, they are very carefully chosen by someone in authority for a particular purpose or a particular job. He was hand-picked for this job by the Admiral Sokagakkai was able to hand-pick his successor
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-picked
- carefully selected; "a hand-picked jury
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-picked
- picked by hand (as opposed to by machine); selected carefully, selected personally
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-schuller-christian disease
- inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- Hand-to-hand fighting is fighting where the people are very close together, using either their hands or weapons such as knives. There was, reportedly, hand-to-hand combat in the streets. hand-to-hand fighting is a way of fighting in which people use their hands and knives rather than guns hand-to-hand fighting/combat etc
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- being at close quarters; "hand-to-hand fighting
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth
- A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on. The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits. Hand-to-mouth is also an adverb. penniless students living hand-to-mouth. if you have a hand-to-mouth existence, you have only just enough money and food to live
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth
- providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth
- {s} having barely enough for daily needs, having nothing to spare, providing only the necessities; precarious
- <span class="word-self">handspan>-to-mouth(a)
- providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence
- Alaska <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em (see king crab)
- Buddha's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A fragrant citrus fruit with a lemon-like flavor, native to northern India
- China <span class="word-self">Handspan>
- Someone particularly knowledgeable about the language, culture and people of China
- Dutch <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A butter pat, being a wooden paddle used to press butter when making it at home. Usually two are used and hence usually in the plural hands
1977: Ranged on shelves along the stone walls would be pans of milk set to rise, buckets and cans, maturing cheeses, butter churns, and butter pats or Dutch hands for beating the last traces of water from the golden mass. — Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0187-6 (discussing a typical kitchen of early colonial Australia).
- <span class="word-self">HANDspan>
- have a nice day
- <span class="word-self">Handspan> of Fatima
- an apotropaic symbol, in both Jewish and Islamic society, serving as a talisman against the "evil eye"
- <span class="word-self">Handspan> of God
- Famous goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup by Maradona
- <span class="word-self">Handspan> of Miriam
- alternative name for the Hand of Fatima
- a bird in the <span class="word-self">handspan> is worth two in the bush
- It is preferable to have a small but certain advantage than a mere potential of a greater one
- at <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Being at the moment the center of attention or the cause of trouble
The problem at hand is not the inability of the Arabs and the Jews to live together peacefully.
- at <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Near; soon; approaching; imminent
He felt it, as did the other dogs, and knew that a change was at hand.
- at <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Readily available; within easy reach; nearby
I don't have the information at hand, but I can look it up.
- at the <span class="word-self">handspan> of
- Alternative form of at the hands of
- ball in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- In billiards, a circumstance in which a fault by another player, such as a scratch, permits the competitor to take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere behind the baulk line
- balls in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- plural form of ball in hand
- bare <span class="word-self">handspan>
- an ungloved hand
- bare <span class="word-self">handspan>
- when a fielder fields the ball without his glove in his hand
Jones bare hands the bunt and throws to first ... out!.
- bear a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- to make haste; to help quickly (used mostly in the imperative)
- bear-a-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- make haste!
- beer <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A seven and two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- bird in the <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Shortened form of "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
- bite the <span class="word-self">handspan> that feeds one
- To cause harm to a benefactor
And the reality is, for all the talk about lobbying reform, Congress has never been known to bite the hand that feeds it.
- bottom <span class="word-self">handspan>
- With a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat; the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot
- by <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Manually; without the use of automation or machines
The computers went down and they had to do all the bookkeeping by hand that day.
- by one's own <span class="word-self">handspan>
- As a result of one's own actions, especially with reference to death by suicide
He gained all his wealth by his own hand.
- cap in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- In a humble and respectful manner
No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money, they were coming to us.
- cash in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- In a manner receiving direct payment by cash, often without paying tax
I heard he's working at that restaurant cash in hand to pay the bills.
- cash in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Direct payment by cash, as opposed to through a bank
This cash in hand will come in handy as spending money on my trip to Asia.
- cash in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Receiving wages or salary directly in the form of cash, often without deducting tax
Many high school students get cash in hand jobs for extra pocket money.
- caught with one's <span class="word-self">handspan> in the cookie jar
- Observed or apprehended while committing a theft, especially while embezzling money
Frankenmanto was, in fact, a certified kleptomaniac who had to carry a doctor’s letter on her to explain the embarrassing little moments when she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
- change <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To turn a horse around; especially, when exercising in a circle, to cross the center and resume circling in the other direction
- charge <span class="word-self">handspan>
- deputy to a foreman in a factory
- come to <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To perform well, to come under control
The horse came to hand, and won first prize.
- come to <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To become available, often unexpectedly, or randomly
Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- dab <span class="word-self">handspan>
- An expert
She is a dab hand in the kitchen.
- dead man's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- dead man's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- dead man's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- devil's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- three of a kind sixes
- drawing <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A poker hand which requires some specific cards on later rounds in order to become a strong hand
John only had four cards of the same suit; he had a drawing hand.
- eat from someone's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Alternative form of eat out of someone's hand
- eat out of someone's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To behave in a docile, submissive way towards somebody
Violetta is well aware of all this and goes out of her way to charm him. . . . He eats out of her hand and would not notice is she fed him rocks.
- eye-<span class="word-self">handspan> coordination
- Alternative form of hand-eye coordination
Sorry, but I just don't think you have the eye-hand coordination to be a juggler in this circus.
- field <span class="word-self">handspan>
- An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch
A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3.
- force someone's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely
- four-in-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- A team of four horses, controlled by a single driver
- four-in-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- A carriage drawn by four such horses; a coach-and-four
- four-in-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- A slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie
- free <span class="word-self">handspan>
- free rein
- give somebody a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To applaud or clap (also to give (someone) a big hand)
Please give all our dedicated volunteers a hand for their hard work.
- give somebody a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To help, aid, or assist
Could you please give me a hand carrying this mattress?.
- glad <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A warm welcome offered a guest by a host
The young men who will get the corporate glad hand are some of the most sought after graduates of the class of '64.
- glad-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- To extend a glad hand (to someone)
- glad-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- To be overly friendly with a stranger in order to gain an advantage
Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people. . . . The President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection.
- go <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Of two things, to be closely related or to go together well; see hand in hand
- go <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Of two people, to hold hands
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before the other.
- goes <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of go hand in hand
- going <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Present participle of go hand in hand
- gone <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Past participle of go hand in hand
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To furl
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
tobacco manufacturing A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand; as
An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour or minute hand of a clock.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left
On this hand and that hand, were hangings.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To pledge by the hand; to handfast
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- In long measure, two different lengths:
Four inches, a hand’s breadth, used in measuring the height of horses.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- 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'.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Handwriting; style of penmanship
a good hand.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Applause
Give him a hand.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To be overfamiliar, to invade a woman's personal space, usually described for a man
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- 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; as
an old hand at speaking.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To give, pass, or transmit with the hand
he handed them the letter.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To manage
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A person's signature
Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- An instance of helping
Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Agency in transmission from one person to another
to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new).
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; — usually in the plural
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To cooperate
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand.
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Each of the pointers on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To seize; to lay hands on
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- The collective noun for a bunch of bananas
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Rate; price
- <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct
to hand a lady into a carriage.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> and foot
- A card game, similar to canasta, using two packs of cards
- <span class="word-self">handspan> balls
- plural form of hand ball
- <span class="word-self">handspan> bills
- plural form of hand bill
- <span class="word-self">handspan> brakes
- plural form of hand brake
- <span class="word-self">handspan> down
- To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor
Fables are handed down from age to age.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> down
- To forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court)
The Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> down
- To donate (as second hand.)
When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me, which later in turn I hand down to my little brother, if they're not ripped apart by then. We fall over a lot, this family of ours. And grow fast. Either way, my little brother ends up with tonnes of third-hand scruffy clothes. Maybe that's why he gets picked on so much.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> dryer
- An electric device in a restroom to dry hands
- <span class="word-self">handspan> grenade
- A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at the enemy
- <span class="word-self">handspan> grenades
- plural form of hand grenade
- <span class="word-self">handspan> in
- To give something to a responsible person
I found a wallet on the street, so I handed it in to the police.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> in glove
- In very close cooperation
The vendors were working hand in glove with our people.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Naturally, ordinarily or predictably together; commonly having a correlation or relationship
The tendency to follow trends and explore one's sense of self goes hand in hand with being a teenager.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Holding or clasping hands
The couple strolled down the sidewalk, hand in hand.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> it to somebody
- To give somebody credit or praise
You have to hand it to him for finishing such a big project so quickly.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> jive
- A dance associated with the rock and roll and rhythm and blues music of the 1950s, comprising a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following or imitating the percussion instruments
- <span class="word-self">handspan> job
- An act of masturbation performed by someone else's hand
1968:I tried it once and she knows it ... I was screwing one night and she lay like a log and I said I could do better jerking off ... a hand job, — Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist, pp. 179, James Arnold Brussel, Bernard Geis Associates (distributed by Grove Press).
- <span class="word-self">handspan> log
- A chip log
- <span class="word-self">handspan> net
- A small net that is equipped with a handle and attached to a rim so that the net forms a pouch. This kind of net is used, eg, for trapping butterflies or individual fish
- <span class="word-self">handspan> off
- To pass or transfer something to someone
Before we hand off the project to him, let's make sure to write some instructions.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> out
- an 1800s baseball term meaning a player is out
- <span class="word-self">handspan> out
- to distribute (something)
- <span class="word-self">handspan> over
- To relinquish control or possession of something to someone
I handed over the controls to the copilot.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> over fist
- Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.''
He didn't earn much, but the company seemed to rake in money hand over fist.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> pay
- When a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper
- <span class="word-self">handspan> pie
- (Southern) A semilunar-shaped pastry with either a sweet or savory filling, formed by placing a dollop of filling onto a circular piece of biscuit-style dough and then folding it over and crimping it shut. They may be baked, fried or deep-fried. A pasty
Hostess® fruit pies are sweet hand pies.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> press
- A printing press operated by hand
- <span class="word-self">handspan> presses
- plural form of hand press
- <span class="word-self">handspan> puppet
- A puppet operated by the hand, especially one in which the puppeteer's hand occupies and controls the head
- <span class="word-self">handspan> saws
- plural form of hand saw
- <span class="word-self">handspan> shandy
- An act of masturbation
- <span class="word-self">handspan> someone his head
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- <span class="word-self">handspan> tab
- A method of spot applying asphalt-based adhesive to shingles for securement and wind resistance
- <span class="word-self">handspan> tool
- A tool powered by human muscle rather than a motor or engine
- <span class="word-self">handspan> tools
- plural form of hand tool
- <span class="word-self">handspan> towel
- a small towel used for drying the hands or face
- <span class="word-self">handspan> truck
- An L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand-truck is upright. It makes otherwise bulky and heavy objects easier to move
- <span class="word-self">handspan> trucks
- plural form of hand truck
- <span class="word-self">handspan> trunk
- A relatively small piece of hard-sided luggage with hinges and latches
- <span class="word-self">handspan> trunks
- plural form of hand trunk
- <span class="word-self">handspan> waving
- Discussion or argumentation involving approximation, vagueness, educated guessing, or the attempt to explain or excuse vagaries
The sales pitch sounded good, but there was a lot of hand waving about the price.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> wringing
- A feigned exhibition of distress, usually with implied inaction or vacillating in the face of a dilemma or crisis
As noted, the confusion and hand wringing about who should do what mostly flows from a failure to clearly think through what an epidemic is and what will be demanded in response.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> wringing
- The repeated clasping or squeezing of the hands as a symptom of distress
Whisperings filled the corridors with unearthly sounds — the hand-wringing and breast-beating of the elder sisters — the sighs and sobs of the younger.
- <span class="word-self">handspan> wringings
- plural form of hand wringing
- hat in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- With humility; in an apologetic or self-effacing fashion
He came back the next day, hat in hand, to correct the problem he left behind.
- have one's <span class="word-self">handspan> out
- To be requesting benefits, especially if not entitled to them
Whenever there was an appropriations bill, he always had his hand out for his guys.
- helping <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Any assistance, help or aid
Thanks for lending a helping hand to the project.
- hold somebody's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To grasp or hold a person's hand
- hold somebody's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details
I'll give you advice on writing an article, but I won't hold your hand through the entire process.
- hour <span class="word-self">handspan>
- The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves twice each day and indicates the hours
- in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- In the physical possession of the owner
- in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- under control
- in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Under consideration
- in <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Forthcoming
- invisible <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A metaphor for the principle that in a free market, an individual pursuing his own self-interest also tends to promote the good of his community as a whole
In short, Smith understood that the invisible hand is often benign, but not always.
- iron <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Firmess, inflexibility, sternness
Reverend Harris ran Clerkebury with an iron hand and an abiding sense of fairness.
- know like the back of one's <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To be intimately knowledgeable about something, especially a place
He knows the software like the back of his hand, and can often solve problems over the phone, without looking.
- left-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- of, relating to, or located on the left
- left-<span class="word-self">handspan>
- designed for use by the left hand
- left-<span class="word-self">handspan> drive
- Describes a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side, designed for use in countries such as USA and France where cars normally drive on the right
- left-<span class="word-self">handspan> path
- A path through life that values the advancement and preservation of the self and the pursuit of terrestrial goals, rather than the worship of intangible deities
- lend a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- To help or assist, especially voluntarily
If we all lend a hand the work will go quickly.
- lend a helping <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Assist or facilitate (in some endeavour)
- lending a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Present participle of lend a hand
- lending <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A helping hand
- lends a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lend a hand
- lent a <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Simple past tense and past participle of lend a hand
- made <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A poker hand which is already a strong hand regardless of which cards come in later rounds
John already had two pair, aces and threes; he had a made hand.
- minute <span class="word-self">handspan>
- The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes
- old <span class="word-self">handspan>
- A person who is experienced at a certain activity
My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors.
- on <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Available; ready; in stock
If you have cornstarch on hand, use it; otherwise, try a little flour.
- on one <span class="word-self">handspan>
- Alternative form of on the one hand
