hand
part of speech
verb (hand, hands, handed, handing); noun (a hand, hands)
meaning for a pupil
1) A hand is the part of your body at the end of your arm, with four fingers and a thumb. tree →
2) To hand is to give something to someone with your hand. tree →
3) The hands of a clock are the pointers that show the time. tree →
4) To give someone a hand is to help them. tree →
5) To be in good hands means to be in someone's care or possession. tree →
sense in the lessons
to pass things to someone; the giver has fewer, the one handed them has more; «hand out» means give one or more to each person; a clock has an hour hand and a minute hand; phrases: «hand out», «hand in», «hand over», «give a hand», «on the other hand», «by hand»
examples
- Mia hands 7 balloons to Sam. tree →
- Tom hands Zoe 1 book. tree →
- Anna handed out 12 sheets to the class. tree →
- Please hand in your homework on Friday. tree →
- Raise your hand if you know the answer. tree →
- The minute hand points to 12. tree →
- Can you give me a hand with these bags? tree →
- We have 2 hands with 5 fingers on each, so 10 fingers. tree →
- It will fall into good hands--" tree →
note
«A hands B N» and «A hands N to B»: N goes from A to B. Trap: as a noun, «hand» is a body part (2 hands, 5 fingers on each). «hand out» to K children N each is N × K. Safety: wash your hands before eating.
In the corpora
- Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.
- Change is the money handed over take away the price.
- A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.
- Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean".
- AI pictures sometimes have clues, like odd hands or nonsense writing, but newer ones may have none.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hand» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.