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FREE-HAND

Definition: FREE-HAND

FREE-HAND

Adjective

1. Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FREE-HAND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)


Synonyms: FREE-HAND

Synonyms by domain: free-hand blanking (chemical industry), freehand data capturing (computing), freehand data entry system, freehand data input, free-hand drawing (computing), free-hand drawn line (engineering & technology, transportation), free-hand grinding (metallurgy), freehand method (mathematics, statistics), freehand sketch (geography), to give someone a free hand (law).

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Crosswords: FREE-HAND

English words defined with "FREE-HAND": Free-hand drawing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "FREE-HAND": free-hand grindinggraphic notepadsketching paper. (references)

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Usage Frequency: FREE-HAND

"FREE-HAND" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FREE-HAND" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FREE-HAND

Language Translations for "FREE-HAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, Fleet Street, flicker, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-lancer, fricassee, friction, Friedman, frigate, frigidity, Frisbee). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

フリーハンド . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ee-handfray

   

Russian 

  

свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, immune, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không dụng cụ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FREE-HAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: freehand.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-h-n-r"

-2 letters: adhere, deafen, deafer, earned, endear, feared, fender, harden, header, neared.

-3 letters: defer, denar, eared, ender, fader, fared, freed, frena, hared, heard, heder, ranee, redan, refed.

-4 letters: dare, darn, deaf, dean, dear, deer, dene, dere, dree, earn, erne, fade, fane, fard, fare, fear, feed, fend, fere, fern, frae, free, hade, haed, haen, hand, hard.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-h-n-r"
 

+2 letters: beforehand, forehanded, freehanded, unfathered.

 

+3 letters: refashioned.

 

+4 letters: enfranchised, fainthearted, forehandedly, freehandedly, handkerchief, henceforward.

 

+5 letters: featheredging, grandfathered, handkerchiefs, hyperinflated, schadenfreude, thenceforward.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FREE-HAND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 45 45 2D 48 41 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01000101 01000101 00101101 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#69 &#69 &#45 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0045 0045 002D 0048 0041 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405239391542354838

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Non-English Dictionaries with "FREE-HAND"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеロシア語 , ロシア", русский, người Nga tiếng Nga

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийский
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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