What does handed mean?

Definitions for handed
ˈhæn dɪdhand·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. handedadjective

    having or involving the use of hands

    "a handed, tree-living animal"; "a four-handed card game"

Wiktionary

  1. handedadjective

    With hands joined; hand in hand.

  2. handedadjective

    (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Handedadjective

    Etymology: from hand.

    Many are right handed, whose livers are weakly constituted; and many use the left, in whom that part is strongest. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 5.

    Into their inmost bow’r
    Handed they went. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv.

ChatGPT

  1. handed

    Handed refers to the dominance or preference of one hand over the other for performing most tasks or activities. It can also refer to the direction, orientation, chirality, or rotation of an object, especially when it's asymmetrical.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Handed

    of Hand

  2. Handedadjective

    with hands joined; hand in hand

  3. Handedadjective

    having a peculiar or characteristic hand

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'handed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2856

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'handed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3434

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of handed in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of handed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of handed in a Sentence

  1. Wendi Williams:

    It was shocking, i think the more calm I remained,( the flight attendant) got angrier and more aggravated. So she said,' I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm done with you,' or' I'm done with this,' something to that effect, and then handed me this passenger disturbance notice.

  2. South African Open:

    I’m really looking forward to playing golf properly this year. I’m tired of being uncomfortable on those little putts. I want to give this cross handed method a real go.

  3. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

    I was handed a slip of paper.

  4. Ron DeSantis:

    If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial, it would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program.

  5. Aaron Hutman:

    The banks have to hear something along the lines of 'If you act in good faith, you can expect that we are not going to engage in any heavy-handed enforcement,' that's not the message you get. The message you get is, 'We plan to vigorously enforce our Iran-related laws.'.

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