one-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: onehanded
Etymology: From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ān-hende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).
Senses: examples: text: And who said the one-handed guy couldn't be self-sufficient? Certainly not his physical therapist, Gus, who led him to believe he'd be as good as new with a spaceage prosthesis and a crapload of physical and occupational therapy.
ref: 2012, Carrie Weaver, Temporary Nanny, →ISBN:
text: Note that we can represent any cyclic event with a one-handed clock.
ref: 1995, Alfred L. Horowitz, MRI Physics for Radiologists, →ISBN:
glosses: Having only one hand.
examples: text: A one-handed save by Wojciech Szczesny prevented Darren Pratley giving Bolton an early lead and Arsenal looked short of ideas in a goalless first half.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
text: If either movement or speed around the court is a weakness, the one-handed backhand may be the best choice because of the extra reach.
ref: 2012, Joey Rive, Scott C. Williams, Tennis Skills & Drills, →ISBN:
glosses: Performed using only one hand.
examples: text: The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.
ref: 2012, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian, →ISBN:
glosses: Designed for use with one hand
examples: text: ... Boys sexual content mostly consists of a series of violent and less than titillating homosexual assaults. Word of mouth among the one-handed' readership would not have been good.
ref: 2007, Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 401:
text: “If it failed for me, it was only as smut; the book, at least in large black and white photocopy form, was not a one-handed read.
ref: 2012, Todd A. Comer, Joseph Michael Sommers, Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Designed for use with one hand
Pornographic in nature.
raw_tags: of reading or reading material
examples: text: The one-handed shooter, the target man who fires the national match course, turns about 45 degrees from the target, separates his feet about the same distance, fully extends his hand, locking the elbow, and with head and body erect looks over the sights.
ref: 2015, William Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting, →ISBN:
glosses: That uses one hand.
examples: text: I don't think she knew what a relief that was, because I would have been poor help for Ralph as a one-handed crew.
ref: 2011, Ralph & Phyllis Nansen, Stone Boat Odyssey, →ISBN, page 251:
text: Holding intercourse with Sir William at this date partook a good deal of the nature of a one-handed conversation, and the one-handedness seemed to increase when the only share of the host, in the post-prandial conviviality, consisted in passing the decanters, which Sir William was scrupulous to do.
ref: 1884, Good Words Volume 25, page 67:
glosses: Involving the actions of only one person.
examples: text: Because of the m-phenylene linkage along the polymer main chain, the inherent propensity to generate foldamers has been explored in several ways, and the induction of one-handed polymer helicity been achieved.
ref: 2010 November, PD Barata, AI Costa, LFV Ferreira, JV Prata, “Synthesis, structure, and optical properties of an alternating calix [4] arene-based meta-linked phenylene ethynylene copolymer”, in Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, volume 48, number 22, page 5040:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.