The word hand English-Uzbek Dictionary

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

hand

/hand/

noun. oe.

[ORIGIN: Old English hand, hond = Old Frisian hānd, hōnd, Old Saxon hand, Old High German hant (Dutch, German Hand), Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic handus, from Germanic, of unkn. origin.]

I. The member; its use; its position; its symbolic representation.

1. The terminal part of the human arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm, fingers, and thumb; a similar (i.e. prehensile) member forming the terminal part of a limb of any animal, e.g. of all four limbs of a monkey; the forefoot of a quadruped. oe.

‣†b The whole arm. e17–m18.

V. S. Naipaul She started to count off the fingers of her left hand. Aldous Huxley The hand he gave to Jeremy was disagreeably sweaty. M. Amis His hands palm-upwards on its grained surface.

2. Possession, care, custody, authority, disposal. Chiefly in in a person's hands below. Usu. in pl. oe.

D. Cusack The future of social morality is in the hands of women. S. Spender It was expected that Madrid would fall into their hands within a matter of hours. V. S. Naipaul The farm manager retired..The farm passed into new hands.

3. Action performed with the hand; agency, instrumentality; manual assistance. oe.

‣b A part or share in an action. l16.

‣c A turn in various games, as billiards, rackets, etc.; an innings in cricket. Cf. sense 19c below. l18.

A. Haley All of this had happened to her at the hands of Massa Waller. G. Winokur 15 per cent will die by their own hand. Times Listing all the troublespots attributed by the Americans to ‘the hand of Moscow’.

(‣b) K. Amis I'm sorry it's happened, but I had no hand in it. R. Rendell Wexford felt sure no true architect had had a hand in its building.

4. Side, position, direction. (See also left hand, right hand.) oe.

R. L. Stevenson The bed of a stream, lined on either hand with sweet-smelling willows. J. Mortimer At Doughty's right hand sat Grace.

5. A pledge (of agreement or acceptance); esp. a promise of marriage. me.

J. Austen When the dancing recommenced..and Darcy approached to claim her hand. L. Strachey Various candidates for her hand were proposed—among others..Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Henry Miller All I had to do was to ask her to marry me, ask her hand.

6. A round of applause. colloq. l16.

L. Armstrong The kids gave me a big hand when they saw the gleaming bright instrument. F. Astaire At the final exit of our closing dance number we received a sparse, sympathetic kind of hand.

7. In pl. = handball noun 5. l19.

II. Something resembling the hand in size or form.

8. An image of or device shaped like a hand. oe.

‣b Typography. = fist noun1 2b. Now rare. e17.

9. A pointer on a clock for indicating the divisions of the dial. m16.

J. Masters The hands were very dim on its blurred white face.

hour hand, minute hand, seconds-hand.

10. A linear measure, now only used of a horse's height, equal to four inches; a hand-breadth. m16.

‣b A measure of quantity of various commodities etc., as a cluster of bananas, a handful of tobacco leaves, or a palmate root of ginger. e18.

Horse International He..already stands 16.3 hands after wintering out.

(‣b) Douglas Stuart Two hands of men, ten men, all proper men, had charge of them. H. Bascom He..took a hand of green plantains from off a bunch.

11. Cookery. A shoulder of pork or, formerly, of mutton. l17.

III. As representing a person.

12.‣a A performer of some action; spec. a performer, writer, etc., of some artistic or literary work. me.

‣b A manual worker; spec. a member of a ship's crew. m17.

(‣a) W. Paley Everything about them indicates that they come from the same hand. Proverb: Many hands make light work.

(‣b) W. Scoresby All hands on board perished. Betty Smith The poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things. P. Ustinov The son of a stable hand.

13. A person as a source from which something originates or is obtained. Now only with ordinal numerals, as first hand, second hand, etc. lme.

W. Bedell You have it but at the third, or fourth hand, perhaps the thirtieth or fortieth. W. Cowper I might..serve your Honour with cauliflowers and broccoli at the besthand. J. W. Croker I hear from a good hand that the King is doing much better.

14. A person of a specified skill, ability, or character. colloq. l18.

V. Woolf I was never a great hand at that. M. Cox But you know I am no hand at expressing myself.

IV. Capacity, performance.

15. Capacity for or skill in doing something with the hand; gen. skill, ability, knack. me.

‣b Horsemanship. Skill in handling the reins. lme.

A. Radcliffe I had always a hand at carpentry.

16. Style of writing, esp. as belonging to a particular person, historical period, profession, etc. lme.

‣b The signature of a person. m16.

F. O'Connor It was written in a drunken-looking hand. G. Greene A message written in his clear slanting American hand. J. Gardner An old almanac with notes in the margin, written in his father's childish hand.

(‣b) OED As witness the hands of the said A.B. and C.D.

Italian hand, round hand, running hand, etc.

17. Style of artistic execution; touch; handiwork. m17.

Hor. Walpole By what I have seen of his hand,..he was an admirable master. M. Arnold The compiler did not put his last hand to the work.

V. Something held in the hand.

18. A handle. Now only Scot. lme.

19. The cards dealt to each player at the beginning of a card game; the cards held at any stage of a game (esp. poker). l16.

‣b The person holding the cards. l16.

‣c A round of play with these cards. e17.

M. Piercy You have to find out what kind of hand she's holding. fig.: I. Murdoch She had been dealt a rotten hand by fate.

(‣c) V. Sackville-West She played an admirable hand at Bridge.

hand

/hand/

verb. lme.

[ORIGIN: from the noun.]

1. verb trans. Touch, grasp, seize, with the hand or hands; manipulate, handle. obsolete exc. techn. lme.

Shakes. Temp. If you can command these elements to silence,..we will not hand a rope more.

2. verb trans. Help or conduct (a person) up or down a step, over an obstacle, into or out of a carriage, etc. m17.

A. Trollope He handed her into the carriage. E. M. Forster Henry..handed Margaret down the cellar-stairs.

3. verb trans. Deliver, pass, or transfer with the hand or hands. Freq. foll. by back, in, over. m17.

‣b spec. Offer, serve, or distribute (food) at a meal. Freq. foll. by round. e19.

A. Carnegie The five hundred dollars which I handed over to Mr. Scott. P. Ackroyd Monro handed the poem back to him. A. Tyler His waiter..handed him a menu. M. Drabble Charles had raged, stormed, and handed in his resignation.

(‣b) H. James I wonder whether Verena hadn't better hand the cake. V. Woolf Amelia Whatshername, handing round cups of tea.

hand it to a person fig. colloq. congratulate, acknowledge the merit of a person.

4. verb trans. Pass on, transfer, transmit. Now only with adverbs (see below). m17.

‣b Give, impose; palm off. N. Amer. e20.

(‣b) T. Morrison Don't hand me that mess.

5. verb trans. & intrans. Nautical. Take in or furl (a sail). m17.

E. Linklater Before they rounded the Horn Sam could hand, reef, and steer.

6. verb trans. Join hand in hand, spec. in marriage. Only in handed ppl adjective. rare. m17.

hand

extremity of the arm comprising palm and fingers; side OE.; handwriting XIV; source of information, etc. XVI; manual worker XVII (employed person, orig. with reference to skill XVIII). OE. hand, hond = OS. hand, OHG. hant (Du., G. hand), ON. hǫnd, Goth. handus; of uncert. orig.Hence hand

vb.

handle, furl; lead by the hand; deliver with the hand XVII. Comps.; handbook OE. handbōc, tr. medL. manuālis liber, late L. manuāle MANUAL. handcuff XVIII, handful OE., handkerchief XVI, hand XIV, handmaiden XIII, handwriting XVI.