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. SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.:

    All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

  2. Ronald Reagan:

    Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

  3. Chelsia Calvert:

    She [an attendant] handed me some peanuts and that's when, as a mom, I just basically broke down— 'what do you mean?' how many have been handed out?

  4. Lyndon McLellan:

    To make this kind of money selling soft drinks, cigarettes, and hot dogs somebody’s got to work, it wasn’t handed to us. It was taken from us. But it wasn’t handed to us.

  5. Robert Bates:

    I shoot long guns left handed and handguns right handed.

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