Definitions for hands
hands

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1. hands, custodynoun

   (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

   "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"

2. work force, workforce, manpower, hands, mennoun

   the force of workers available

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1. Hands

   Hands is the third studio album by recording artist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal released in March 1998. This was his first release under the Bumblefoot name.

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1. hands

   Plural form of the word hand.

   We human beings have our hands and we are so grateful.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 16, 2015  

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1. hands

   Song lyrics by hands -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by hands on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Force
   • Guardianship

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hands' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #477

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hands' in Written Corpus Frequency: #857

How to pronounce hands?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say hands in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hands in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of hands in a Sentence

1. Ronnie Gonzalez:

   He's in the hands of God now, we don't believe in vengeance, we just forgive.

2. Alex Bell:

   It is hard to overstate the importance of Rome, from Mount Aventine, there are no more than half a dozen major works by Turner left in private hands and this work must rank as one of the very finest.

3. Mark Meadows:

   There’s a look about somebody’s hands that’s been out in the cold, it’s got that cold look about them.

4. Doc Rivers:

   I can tell you up front, we would love to get Ben back, and if we can, we’re going to try to do that, ben has a long contract, so it’s in our hands and we want him back.

5. Dan Snyder:

   I have admittedly been too hands-off as an owner and allowed others to have day-today control to the detriment of our organization. Going forward I am going to be more involved, and we have already made major changes in personnel bringing in new leadership to drive cultural transformation on and off the field. In addition, we are assembling a world class team of external advisors to both investigate these allegations and create an actionable and measurable plan to change our culture.

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