Hand
A hand (med./lat.: manus, pl. manūs) is a prehensile, multi-fingered extremity located at the end of an arm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each "hand" and fingerprints remarkably similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having either "hands" or "paws" on their front limbs.
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... where the player has to put their hand or foot ... The spinner is divided into four labeled sections right foot, left foot, right hand and left hand ... After spinning, the combination is called (for example "right hand yellow") and players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct ...
... Only in The History of Astronomy (written before 1758) Smith speaks of the invisible hand, to which ignorants refer to explain natural phenomena otherwise unexplainable Fire burns, and ... of Moral Sentiments (1759) and in The Wealth of Nations (1776) Adam Smith speaks of an invisible hand, never of the invisible hand ... They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its ...
... the intelligence of Smith's thesis, criticizes how the term of the "invisible hand" has been used ... The invisible hand, he wrote, destroys the possibility of a decent human existence "unless government takes pains to prevent" this outcome, as must be assured in "every ... So as if by an invisible hand England would be spared the ravages of economic rationality ...
... Since Smith's time, the principle of the invisible hand has been further incorporated into economic theory ... in Human Action (see note 3 at the bottom), claims that Smith believed that the invisible hand was that of God ... The invisible hand is traditionally understood as a concept in economics, but Robert Nozick argues in Anarchy, State and Utopia that substantively the same concept ...
... The specific name means "with a long hand" from Latin longus, "long", and manus, "hand" ... Yixianosaurus has a very long hand, 140% of the length of the 89 millimetres (3.5 in) long humerus ... The large hands could have served in catching prey or assisted climbing ...
More definitions of "hand":
- (verb): Place into the hands or custody of.
Example: "Hand me the spoon, please"
Synonyms: pass, reach, pass on, turn over, give
- (noun): Terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos).
Example: "The kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting"- Springfield (Mass.) Union
- (noun): A hired laborer on a farm or ranch.
Example: "The hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"
Synonyms: hired hand, hired man
- (noun): One of two sides of an issue.
Example: "On the one hand..., but on the other hand..."
- (noun): The cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time.
Example: "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
Synonyms: deal
- (noun): Something written by hand.
Example: "His hand was illegible"
Synonyms: handwriting, script
- (noun): A unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses.
Example: "The horse stood 20 hands"
- (noun): A member of the crew of a ship.
Example: "All hands on deck"
- (noun): A card player in a game of bridge.
Example: "We need a 4th hand for bridge"
Synonyms: bridge player
- (noun): A rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece.
Example: "The big hand counts the minutes"
- (noun): A position given by its location to the side of an object.
Example: "Objections were voiced on every hand"
- (verb): Guide or conduct or usher somewhere.
Example: "Hand the elderly lady into the taxi"
- (noun): Ability.
Example: "He wanted to try his hand at singing"
- (noun): A round of applause to signify approval.
Example: "Give the little lady a great big hand"
Famous quotes containing the word hand:
“I can nail my left palm
to the left-hand cross-piece but
I can’t do everything myself.
I need a hand to nail the right,
a help, a love, a you, a wife.”
—Alan Dugan (b. 1923)
“I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“You stink like my Mama under your bra
and I vomit into your hand like a jackpot
its cold hard quarters.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)