(n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
(a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
(a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
(adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(2) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
(3) In summary, performance status of the overhand throw by preschool age children can be improved beyond maturational expectations through guided instruction.
(4) Three beam-walking tests (the beam at different heights and angles) and the overhand throw comprised the criterion measures used for assessment of program effectiveness in stability and object projection.
(5) Ulnar neuritis at the elbow is a common entity affecting the athlete especially those involved in overhand sports.
(6) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(7) The structure is dominated by a left-handed four-helix bundle with an unusual topology comprising two overhand connections.
(8) These data indicate that the helices of interleukin-4 are arranged in a left-handed four-helix bundle with two overhand connections.
(9) In the first task, darts were thrown overhand at a stationary target.
(10) Using accessible surface contact area as a criterion, the most suitable structures were right handed all antiparallel four-helix bundles with two overhand loop connections.
(11) The young athlete involved in overhand sports is at risk for injury, and must be clinically evaluated and treated differently from the rest of the population.
(12) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found among highly trained tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
(13) I should have got the knockdown but I didn’t.” From the opening bell the fighters circled one another clockwise trading jabs to the head and body, but Jack connected with a sharp right hand upstairs that hurt Groves then followed it up moments later with a heat-seeking overhand right that dumped the Englishman to the canvas.
(14) Stability measures were distance divided by time, and object projection scores were determined by velocity of the overhand throw.
(15) 131 deaf boys and girls were evaluated on development of the overhand throw.
(16) Post hoc tests revealed that for the overhand throw, the IVD and TD groups were superior to the SD group but not different from each other.
(17) Shoulder pain in the overhand or throwing athlete can often be traced to the stabilizing mechanisms of the glenohumeral joint.
(18) Analysis by age and by sex showed a significant difference in the performance of the Overhand Throw.
(19) The helices are arranged in a left-handed antiparallel bundle with two overhand connections.
(20) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found in skilled tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
(a.) Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
(adv.) By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly.
(adv.) In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(3) It is plain that, by means up-front and underhand, unemployment benefit is being systematically destroyed as a reliable source of income.
(4) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
(5) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(6) In 2006, Norris told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers."
(7) However, the health secretary is likely to face a parliamentary inquiry into his department’s figures after the Commons public accounts committee accused him of “underhand” behaviour in publishing his department’s figures on the last day before MPs leave for their summer break.
(8) They say they are the target of underhand plots by their political opponents.
(9) Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage.
(10) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
(11) The Abbott government should listen to the people of Australia instead of trying to bully them and wear them down with expensive advertising propaganda campaigns and underhanded political tactics.” Even if the PUP decided to support a compromise package, the votes of Lambie, Xenophon and Muir would be enough to defeat the bill when combined with Labor and the Greens.
(12) If he is no longer the favoured man, why is the education secretary so underhand in his disapproval?
(13) Nor does there need to be personal or commercial gain from underhand behaviour.
(14) "They occur where there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or sometimes something more underhand," says a spokesman.
(15) A visual model performing an underhand modified softball pitch was viewed prior to each of four blocks of five practice trials.
(16) "In those days, what was considered proper reporting was to do things in as underhand and as deceitful a way as possible.
(17) BAE's underhand methods further call into question the intimate relationship between BAE and the government."
(18) Transparency campaigners said the groups' funding left them open to allegations of underhand dealings.
(19) It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
(20) Such transactions are commonplace in San Francisco and the Silk Road was meant to be their alternative: a place where anyone who wanted drugs could buy them without associating with underhanded dealers or entering dangerous alleyways.