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  • 111Hand Picked Hotels — Hand Picked Hotels, set up by financier Guy Hands and his wife Julia, owns and operates a collection of individual and historic country house hotels. Julia, a former lawyer, now runs Hand Picked Hotels. TIMELINE 1999: Early in the year, the Hands …

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  • 112Hand — /hand/, n. Learned /lerr nid/, 1872 1961, U.S. jurist. * * * End part of the arm, consisting of the wrist joint, palm, thumb, and fingers. The hand has great mobility and flexibility to carry out precise movements. Bipedal locomotion in humans… …

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  • 113Hand in Hand (Tamil Nadu) — Hand in Hand is an Indian public charitable trust registered in the year 2002 with an initial focus on child labour elimination, education, and the empowerment of women. The organisation has been in operation since 1988, initially working in… …

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  • 114have something in hand — have (something) in hand be in hand if a plan or a situation is in hand, it is being dealt with. After days of rioting, the troops now have the situation in hand. (= are dealing with the situation) …

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  • 115Hand signals — are given by cyclists and some motorists to indicate their intentions to other traffic. Under the terms of the Vienna Convention on Traffic, bicycles are considered to be vehicles and cyclists are considered to be drivers. The traffic codes of… …

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  • 116have your hands full — phrase to be extremely busy with a difficult job The police had their hands full with other problems. Thesaurus: to be busysynonym Main entry: hand * * * have your hands full see ↑hand, 1 …

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  • 117Hand percussion — is a term used to indicate a percussion instrument of any type from any culture that is held in the hand. They can be made from wood, metal or plastic and are usually either shaken, scraped or tapped with fingers or a stick. It is a useful… …

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  • 118hand — [hand] n. [ME < OE, akin to Goth handus < base of hinthan, to seize (hence, basic sense “grasper”) < ? IE base * kent , ? to seize] I 1. the part of the human body attached to the end of the forearm, including the wrist, palm, fingers,… …

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  • 119have (someone) in the palm of (your) hand — to have so much control over someone that they will do whatever you want them to do. She s got her boyfriend eating out of the palm of her hand. It was such an amazing performance he had the audience in the palm of his hand …

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  • 120Hand (disambiguation) — Hands are the two intricate, prehensile, multi fingered body parts normally located at the end of each arm of a human or other primate. There are four fingers and a thumb (counting up to five digits) on the human hand.Hand may also refer to:*… …

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