| Definition of 'by hand' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adverb) by hand
without the use of a machine
"this dress is sewn by hand"
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| Definitions of 'by hand' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. by hand
1. [common] 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. [common] 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.”
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Sense: with a person's hand or tools held in the hands, rather than with machinery
furniture made by hand.
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 Afrikaans: handgemaak |
 Arabic: يَدَويا |
 Bulgarian: на ръка |
 Brazilian: à mão |
 Czech: ručně |
 German: mit der Hand |
 Danish: håndlavet; med hånden |
 Greek: με το χέρι, στο χέρι |
 Spanish: a mano |
 Estonian: käsitsi |
 Farsi: بوسيله دست |
 Finnish: käsin |
 French: à la main |
 Hebrew: בַּיָד |
 Hindi: हस्तनिर्मित |
 Croatian: rucno (izraden) |
 Hungarian: kézzel (készült) |
 Indonesian: melalui pesuruh |
 Icelandic: handunninn |
 Italian: a mano |
 Japanese: 手造りで |
 Korean: 손으로 |
 Lithuanian: ranka, rankiniu būdu |
 Latvian: ar rokām |
 Malay: dengan tangan |
 Norwegian: med hånden/håndkraft, man |
 Polish: ręcznie |
 Persian: بوسيله دست |
 Pashto: په لاس کی |
 Portuguese: à mão |
 Romanian: lucrat manual |
 Russian: ручным способом |
 Slovak: ručne |
 Slovenian: na roko |
 Serbian: rukom |
 Swedish: för hand |
 Thai: โดยทำด้วยมือ |
 Turkish: elle |
 Taiwanese: 用手 |
 Ukrainian: ручним способом |
 Urdu: ہاتھوں یا ہاتھ کو اوزار س |
 Vietnamese: làm bằng tay |
 Chinese: 用手 |
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