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Definition: By Hand |
By HandAdverb1. Without the use of a machine; "this dress is sewn by hand". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | By hand adv. [common] 1. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn't have a command to include the text of the message I'm replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not necessarily mean the speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say, dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox file, reading that into an editor, locating the top and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting `>' characters on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Compare eyeball search. 2. By extension, writing code which does something in an explicit or low-level way for which a presupplied library routine ought to have been available. "This cretinous B-tree library doesn't supply a decent iterator, so I'm having to walk the trees by hand.". Source: Jargon File. |
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| Antonym: by machine (adv). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | It can't be by hand, it's too perfect (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
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 | Trolley rig - paying out leadline by hand as trolley carriage runs down cable Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The Greenhill/East Timbalier workers bringing plants into dredge area. Spartina alterniflora was planted by hand to create new marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Gathering commercial oysters is done chiefly by dredging or tonging. However, in certain areas much harvesting was done by oystermen who gather them by hand at low tide. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Picking oysters by hand at low tide. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Volunteers haul away Brazilian Pepper brush. This part of the restoration is extremely labor intensive. The brush must be cut by hand, chipped and then burned. The pepper brush must be burned before the berries turn red or the seeds will be distributed and begin new growth. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Figure 51. HIRONDELLE II sounding machine used by Prince Albert I of Monaco. This machine represented the evolution of a number of sounding machines used by Prince Albert I since first having a wireline machine installed on the HIRONDEL LE. The first machine was wound back in by hand, but subsequent models had stea m engines for winding in. The engineer Jules Le Blanc built these machines. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | A plaster 3-D model of the Bowers Ridge and Basin. This feature is located north of the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea. This model was constructed by hand in 1967. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Workers harvesting leaf lettuce by hand, Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Seated female figure with mirror adjusting her dress while a winged hand maiden attends to her hair ; Female figure seated in klismos chair while figure of Eros or Cupid, assisted by hand maiden, washes her feet. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Harvesting maize by hand. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He merely remembered having been seized from behind by hand at the moment he fell backwards into the barricades, then all became a blank to him. |
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Health | For children under 2 years old, remove crawling bugs and nits by hand. If this does not work, ask your child’s health care provider for treatment recommendations. (references) | |
They usually are transmitted by hand to mouth, although the use of human feces as fertilizer may also permit transmission of infective eggs by food that is grown in the soil and eaten without being thoroughly washed. (references) | ||
Business | Farmers in the poorer, interior provinces lack the resources to buy farm equipment and much of the farming here is still often done by hand or with crude farm tools. (references) | |
Trade | Jordan | This is usually done by hand directly on the invoice itself. (references) |
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Expressions using "by hand": delivered by hand ♦ done by hand ♦ made by hand ♦ make by hand ♦ To bring up by hand ♦ work done by hand. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "by hand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bëj me duar (make by hand). (various references) | |
Arabic | صناعة يدوية (handmade, made by hand). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | правя ръчно (make by hand). (various references) | |
Czech | doruèeno poslem (delivered by hand). (various references) | |
Danish | blod,der er omroert med haenderne (blood stirred by hand), slutpoleringen blev udfoert manuelt med aluminiumoxid-opslemning,foerst paa uldent klaede,derefter paa et meget bloedt klaede,idet der ind imellem aetses adskillige gange med alkoholisk pikrinsyre eller salpetersyreoploesning (the final polishing was done by hand at first on a wool cloth, then on a very soft haired cloth using alumina. Several intermediate etching treatments with alcoholic picric acid or nitric acid were used), manuelt udskilt floede (by hand removed cream), gravning af roergrave omfatter al gravning,der udfoeres af maskiner til at grave roergrave,gravemaskiner eller med haandkraft,for at give roergraven den stoerrelse,der kraeves til roerledningen (excavator or by hand to prepare the trench to the required dimensions for the pipeline, trenching includes all excavation which is carried out by trenching machines), apparat til fotografering af en skriftsats der i forvejen er sat i haanden eller paa maskine (camera which photographs blocks of type previously set by hand or by machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | scheproom (by hand removed cream), met de hand geklopt bloed (blood stirred by hand), het maken van sleuven omvat alle grondwerkzaamheden die worden utigevoerd met sleuvengravers,excavateurs of met de hand om een sleuf van de vereiste afmetingen voor de pijpleiding in gereedheid te brengen (excavator or by hand to prepare the trench to the required dimensions for the pipeline, trenching includes all excavation which is carried out by trenching machines), camera waarmede zetsels welke van te voren compleet met de hand of machinaal zijn samengesteld in hun geheel worden gereproduceerd (camera which photographs blocks of type previously set by hand or by machine). (various references) | |
Finnish | käsin. (various references) | |
French | manuellement. (various references) | |
German | von hand (manual, manually), mit der Hand (manual). (various references) | |
Greek | με το χέρι (freehand). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kézzel, kézbesített. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bimbit (carry by hand, lead by hand), membimbing (lead, lead by hand). (various references) | |
Italian | manuale (guide, hand, handbook, manual, textbook). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手"り (handspun, handwoven, weaving by hand), 手" (handspun, handwoven, weaving by hand), 手押し (hand gilding, pushing by hand), 手押し (hand gilding, pushing by hand), 手"ち (killing with bare hands, making noodles by hand, reconciliation), 手張り (gambling without money, gluing by hand), 手写 (copying by hand), 手差し (inserted by hand), 手巻き (winding or rolling by hand), 手刷り (printing by hand). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅしゃ (choice, copying by hand, option, rejection or adoption), てずり (handspun, handwoven, printing by hand, weaving by hand), ておし (hand gilding, pushing by hand), てまき (winding or rolling by hand), てさし (inserted by hand), てうち (capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act, killing with bare hands, making noodles by hand, reconciliation), てばり (gambling without money, gluing by hand). (various references) | |
Manx | er louyn (along, on a rope), er laueyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ybay andhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | na mo (hand). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãcut de mânã (done by hand). (various references) | |
Russian | вручную (manually), от руки. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uraditi rukom (make by hand), ručno (hand: by hand). (various references) | |
Spanish | a mano (handy, manually). (various references) | |
Swedish | med bud, för hand. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ручним способом, від руки. (various references) | |
Welsh | llawfaeth (reared by hand). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-n-y" | |
-1 letter: bandy, handy. | |
-2 letters: band, hand. | |
-3 letters: aby, and, any, bad, bah, ban, bay, dab, dah, day, had, hay, nab, nah, nay, yah. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ah, an, ay, ba, by, ha, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-h-n-y" | |
+3 letters: husbandly, husbandry. | |
+5 letters: hydrocarbon, rhabdomancy, unabashedly. | |
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