(n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
(n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand
(n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
(n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
(n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
(n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.
(n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
(n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
(n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
(n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.
(n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.
(n.) Rate; price.
(n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
(n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
(n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
(n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
(v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
(v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
(v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.
(v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
(v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
(v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.
(v. i.) To cooperate.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(3) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(4) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(7) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
(8) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(9) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
(10) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(11) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(12) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(13) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(14) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(15) The pons, on the other hand, has a bioelectrical activity of its own during PS, i.e., the ponto-geniculo-occipital spikes (PGO).
(16) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(17) On the other hand, the limbic after-discharges to the hippocampal or amygdaloid stimulation were enhanced by Z. mioga as well as chlorpromazin, but they were inhibited by diazepam.
(18) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
(19) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(20) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
Reach
Definition:
(v. i.) To retch.
(n.) An effort to vomit.
(v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
(v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
(v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
(v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
(v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
(v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
(v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
(v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
(v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.
(v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.
(v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
(v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
(v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
(v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
(n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
(n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
(n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
(n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
(n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(4) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
(5) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(6) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(7) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(8) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
(9) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(10) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
(11) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(12) This indicates that [Ca2+]i may reach greater than 10 microM during an RCC.
(13) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(14) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(15) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(16) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(17) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(18) These O2-exposed cells were resistant to 4HNE, requiring 2.6 times as long in 80 microM 4HNE to reach 30% survival as compared to density-matched normoxia control.
(19) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(20) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.