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OLD HANDS

"OLD HANDS" is a plural of: old hand.


Specialty Definition: OLD HANDS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Old Hands supernumeraries who have been used to the work. "New hands" are those new to the work. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Use in Literature: OLD HANDS

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

If she heard a step in the hall, she shut the closet as quick as she could with her old hands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: OLD HANDS

Language Translations for "OLD HANDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

tapasztalt vén róka ebben (he is an old hands at it). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olday andshay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OLD HANDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-h-l-n-o-s"

-2 letters: aholds, hodads, hondas, soland, soldan.

-3 letters: ahold, dados, dahls, dhals, donas, halos, hands, hodad, holds, honda, lands, loads, loans, nodal, salon, shoal, solan.

-4 letters: adds, ados, also, ands, dado, dads, dahl, dahs, dals, dash, dhal, dols, dona, dons, halo, hand, hods, hold, hols, hons, lads, land, lash, load, loan, naos, nods, nosh, odds.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-h-l-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: handholds.

 

+3 letters: landholders.

 

+4 letters: handholdings, landholdings, roadholdings, thousandfold.

 

+5 letters: candleholders.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OLD HANDS


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

4F 4C 44      48 41 4E 44 53

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

    

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

01001111 01001100 01000100 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#76 &#68 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 004C 0044      0048 0041 004E 0044 0053

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

49463824235483853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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