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HANDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or involving the use of hands
Example:
a four-handed card game
Classified under:
Similar:
one-handed (having or using a single hand)
bimanual; two-handed (requiring two hands or designed for two people)
Antonym:
handless (without a hand or hands)
Derivation:
handedness (the property of using one hand more than the other)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hand
Context examples:
It consists of approximately 110 amino acids in a left-handed up-and-down four helix bundle with a left handed twist.
(Bromodomain, NCI Thesaurus)
The waves were recorded from right-handed volunteers with a highly sensitive scanning technique called magnetoencephalography.
(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)
The robbers, therefore, made him get on the horse, and handed him the stick and the cloak, and when he had put this round him he was no longer visible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He handed me a card from his desk.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“This gentleman hath a two-handed sword, a good foot longer than that of our friend.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Amy, who was handed about like refreshments, returned to the parlor on Father Laurence's arm.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
White Fang was too terrible for any of them to face single- handed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She glanced over it, and handed it to Mary.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had just read Elton's letter as I was shewn in, and handed it to me directly.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Darcy handed the ladies into the carriage; and when it drove off, Elizabeth saw him walking slowly towards the house.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
