hand (original) (raw)
hand noun (CLOCK/WATCH)
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hand noun (CARDS)
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hand noun (ABILITY)
good/sure hands
If you have good hands, you have the ability to use your hands to do something well:
You want a fielder with good hands at shortstop.
hand noun (HELP)
a hand with She asked for a hand with the food for the party.
a hand doing something Would you like a hand carrying those bags?
give someone a hand Could you give me a hand with the table, please?
lend someone a hand Eric came along and lent us a hand.
could use a hand I could really use a hand with these accounts if you could spare a moment.
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- helpCan I help you get that?
- aidThe project is designed to aid poorer countries.
- assistThe army arrived to assist in the search.
- collaborateWe collaborated on the project.
- cooperateSeveral countries are cooperating in the relief effort.
- benefitThe children have benefited greatly from the new facilities.
hand noun (PERSON)
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hand noun (INVOLVEMENT)
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hand noun (CLAP)
hand noun (WRITING)
[ S ] old use
a person's writing:
hand noun (MEASUREMENT)
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Idioms
B1
to put something into someone's hand from your own hand:
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- giveGive me that dirty plate.
- offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
- provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
- supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
- donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.
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- When you've finished your work sheets, clip them together and hand them to me.
- She handed me a business card with her name neatly embossed on it.
- The waiter handed me the menu with a flourish.
- She handed me a tissue just as I sneezed.
- Please would you hand me my coat?
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Idiom
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of hand from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
hand | American Dictionary
hand noun (BODY PART)
He took my hand (= held it with his hand) as we walked along.
hand noun (CLOCK)
hand noun (CARDS)
hand noun (HELP)
Can I give you a hand with those bags?
hand noun (WORKER)
hand noun (CLAPPING)
Idioms
hand verb [T] (PUT INTO HAND)
to put something from your hand into someone else’s hand:
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of hand from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
hand | Business English
hand in hand
I see myself working hand in hand with him on this.
get your hands on sb/sth
informal
to find or get someone or something you want:
good with your hands
able to make or do things well with your hands:
on hand
They said he had $7.5 million cash on hand.
put your hand in your pocket UK
to hand UK
near and able to be used:
See also
(Definition of hand from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of hand
hand
In both written and unwritten traditions, a complex of thoughts and approaches to music are handed down from teacher to student.
Hold these points and then change the hands and repeat the process.
Voting was normally by show o f hands.
A total of 1,490 sentences were handed down, including 504 for imprisonment or detention in a reform school.
As he handed it to the new marine, he would drop it on the ground.
One way of thinking about human existence through time, then, is to say that we are constantly handing down a set of possibilities to ourselves.
Everything in the picture seems to work out from and back to her hands.
Red may like many hands, perhaps varying greatly in size and content.
People cannot kick with their hands or eyes or anything else in the normal sense.
Their fortunes were in the hands of strangers and of circumstance.
I had just given grand rounds at the medical school when my colleague handed me a pink message slip.
Is treatment of incurable disease placed in the hands of other countries?
Her hands were cold and mottled, her lips were blue, her face was pale, and her respirations were agonal.
Humans remove meat from bodies with their hands, in the process covering them with blood.
They stand there as if they had never been built by human hands.
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Collocations with hand
These are words often used in combination with hand.
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Freer gained a reputation for performing effects like freezing ice in his bare hand.
From
Wikipedia
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The cupped hand and ear trumpet were commonly used methods to improve sound input to the ear in the past.
It therefore follows that a firm hand must be maintained on home demand.
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