BARE HAND collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of bare and hand
bare
adjective
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/beər/us
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/ber/
without any clothes or not covered ...
hand
noun
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/hænd/us
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/hænd/
the part of the body at the end of the arm that is used for holding, moving, touching, and ...
Examples of bare hand
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Freer gained a reputation for performing effects like freezing ice in his bare hand.
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Originally, the stool was defended with a bare hand.
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It appears she has some martial arts training (being able to slice a bottle with her bare hand).
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Some printmakers will use their bare hand instead to wipe these areas.
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Another segment shows her breaking a mirror with her bare hand, which starts to bleed uncontrollably.
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He still holds the bare hand record (no sticks) of 1138 single strikes in 60 seconds, a very difficult achievement.
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By doing so, the bare hand can not be struck by a foul tip.
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The drum is struck with the other arm (usually the right) and is played either with the bare hand or with a tipper.
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At one point he used a bare hand and one soft glove.
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Cadets are not allowed to use bare hand for taking food, use of forks and spoon is mandatory.
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The use of bare hands should be banned.
She did not wear gloves and handled every individual bread item (notably hamburger buns) at least twice with bare hands.
Intriguingly, while tongs are needed for a great deal of blacksmithing, much work can be done by mere holding the cold end with ones bare hand.
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During the hot summer months, hot custard was made and scooped from the bowl with bare hands.
Lizards were caught with bare hands and placed separately in a glass jar.
Many early baseball gloves were simple leather gloves with the fingertips cut off, supposedly to allow for the same control of a bare hand, but with extra padding.
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Thomson also entertains a version of the case in which you shove the one off the bridge with your bare hands.
Each pit represents a community which has been built, brick by brick, with the bare hands of generations of people associated with the mining industry.
One contractor told me many of these foreign slates are so brittle, that he was able to crumble them to dust with his bare hands.
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