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# hand

«hand» in Mova's school dictionary: **the part of your body at the end of your arm, with four…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hand, hands, handed, handing); noun (a hand, hands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hand is the part of your body at the end of your arm, with four fingers and a thumb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#m1)

2) To hand is to give something to someone with your hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#m2)

3) The hands of a clock are the pointers that show the time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#m3)

4) To give someone a hand is to help them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#m4)

5) To be in good hands means to be in someone's care or possession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

to pass things to someone; the giver has fewer, the one handed them has more; «hand out» means give one or more to each person; a clock has an hour hand and a minute hand; phrases: «hand out», «hand in», «hand over», «give a hand», «on the other hand», «by hand»

### examples

- Mia hands 7 balloons to Sam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x1)
- Tom hands Zoe 1 book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x2)
- Anna handed out 12 sheets to the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x3)
- Please hand in your homework on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x4)
- Raise your hand if you know the answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x5)
- The minute hand points to 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x6)
- Can you give me a hand with these bags? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x7)
- We have 2 hands with 5 fingers on each, so 10 fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x8)
- It will fall into good hands--" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/#x9)

### note

«A hands B N» and «A hands N to B»: N goes from A to B. Trap: as a noun, «hand» is a body part (2 hands, 5 fingers on each). «hand out» to K children N each is N × K. Safety: wash your hands before eating.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/2/)
- [Change is the money handed over take away the price.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/17/)
- [A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/16/)
- [Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/0/)
- [AI pictures sometimes have clues, like odd hands or nonsense writing, but newer ones may have none.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hand» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hand/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.