one-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ānhende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).
Inflected forms:
form: onehanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: onehanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having only one hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
Note that we can represent any cyclic event with a one-handed clock.
gloss: Performed using only one hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Designed for use with one hand
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.
gloss: Designed for use with one hand
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
specifically
examples: ... 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.
“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.
gloss: That uses one hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Involving the actions of only one person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Using only one hand; one-handedly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She waved to us and lost her balance; riding a bicycle one-handed is tricky.
She fanned the fire one-handed, cooked, swept the yard, pulled weeds out of the tomato beds, washed longyis and towels, and even developed a technique to wring them out one-handed—all because she did not want to put her son down.
Felicity prepares him meals he can eat one-handed, and when they have a roast, she cuts up the meat into bite-sized portions as she once did for the children.
Doing it half-drunk wasn't all that hard. Doing it one-handed was hard but not insurmountable. Doing it one-handed and half-drunk was...The damned screws didn't want to stay in the plastic, and the instructions for putting a V-8 engine together had to be easier than this!
gloss: Using only one hand; one-handedly.
pos: adv
tags: euphemistic
humorous
not-comparable
often
examples: The kind of story that you just know was written one-handed
gloss: Very easily, without effort.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: He's a terrible snooker player. I could beat him one-handed!
That's when Brandon noticed the five kids were laughing at him. "Are you the best player in Springton?" asked one. "Hah! We could beat you one-handed!" shouted another. "We could beat you blindfolded!" said a third.
This isn't going to be a competition, College Boy. It's going to be a walkover. I could beat you one-handed.
As rough as you look 'round the edges this morning, I could take you one-handed. Seriously, you can go into the kitchen and have your coffee in peace and in quiet.
Derived words: one-handedness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: еднорък
roman: ednorǎk
lang: Catalan
word: manc
lang: French
word: manchot
lang: Galician
word: toco
lang: Galician
word: manco
lang: Galician
word: coto
lang: Hebrew
word: גידם
roman: gidem
lang: Hungarian
word: félkezű
lang: Icelandic
word: einhentur
lang: Irish
word: leathláimhe
lang: Irish
word: leathlámhach
lang: Italian
word: con una mano
lang: Latin
word: ūnimanus
lang: Old English
word: ānhende
lang: Polish
word: jednoręki
lang: Portuguese
word: maneta
lang: Spanish
word: manco
lang: Swedish
word: enhänt
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چولاق
roman: çolak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قولاق
roman: kolak
lang: Bulgarian
word: за една ръка
roman: za edna rǎka
lang: German
word: einhändig
lang: Swedish
word: enhands-