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. Mark Allen Sanders:

    Jon Hamm rears back and hits me left-handed, and Jon Hamm hit me right over my right kidney, I mean square over it, good solid hit and that, that stood me right up.

  2. Bruce Schaller:

    It's an occasion for one-handed applause because this should have happened all along.

  3. Moira Penza:

    You have the letters which are used to keep someone in line, but if the person does manage to break away from that control and actually speak out against the person, the letters can be used to attack their credibility, once someone has written a letter like that and handed it over -- they've lost any ability to say no to whatever comes next without fear of serious harm to all aspects of their life.

  4. John Thune:

    It sounds like it's a very, very heavy-handed government intervention in the marketplace and essentially kind of killing the free market for drugs.

  5. Marlo Thomas:

    Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

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