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Hand-to-hand

Definition: Hand-to-hand

Hand-to-hand

Adjective

1. Being at close quarters; "hand-to-hand fighting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym by domain: hand-to-hand fighting (law).

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Crosswords: Hand-to-hand

English words defined with "hand-to-hand": grapple, grapplinghand-to-hand strugglerasslingtrench knifewrestle, wrestling. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hand-to-hand

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've been trained in all aspects of hand-to-hand combat. (God Squad!; writing credit: J.F. Kinyon)

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

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Commercial Usage: Hand-to-hand

DomainTitle

Books

  • Close-Quarter Combat : A Soldier's Guide To Hand-To-Hand Fighting (reference)

  • Knife Self-Defense for Combat (Special Forces/Ranger-Udt/Seal Hand-To-Hand Combat/Special Weapons/Special Tactics Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hand-to-hand

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Iraq

In contrast mortality rates for children under 5 years old in the Kurdish-controlled north dropped in the period between 1994 and 1999. The Special Rapporteur criticized the Government for "letting innocent people suffer while [it] maneuvered to get sanctions lifted." Had the Government not waited 5 years to adopt the oil-for-food program in 1996, he stated in October 1999, "millions of innocent people would have avoided serious and prolonged suffering." For the 8th, the Government held 3-week training courses in weapons use, hand-to-hand fighting, rappelling from helicopters, and infantry tactics for children between 10 and 15 years of age. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hand-to-hand

"Hand-to-hand" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Hand-to-hand" is used about 76 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)94.74%7239,377
Adverb (general)3.95%3202,518
Noun (singular)1.32%1339,140
                    Total100.00%76N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Hand-to-hand

Language Translations for "hand-to-hand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

luftim trup me trup (hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ръкопашен бой (dogfight, handgrips, hand-to-hand fighting, infighting, melee). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ruèní zápas (hand-to-hand fighting), boj zblízka (close combat, hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

handgemeen (affray, hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

käsikähmä (hand-to-hand fight, hand-to-hand fighting, scuffle). (various references)

   

French

  

mêlée (hand-to-hand fighting), combat corps corps (hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

German

  

Handgemenge (hand-to-hand fighting, melee, scuffle), nahkampf (close combat, dogfight, hand-to-hand fighting, infighting), ein Kampf Mann gegen Mann (hand-to-hand fight). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

közelharc (close combat, dog fight, dog-fight, hand-play, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hand-to-hand fighting, infighting, scrimmage, scrum), kézitusa (grapple, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fighting, knock down). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rissa (affray, brawl, brawling, fight, fray, hand-to-hand fighting, scuffle, tussle), lotta corpo a corpo (hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

白兵戦 (hand-to-hand combat), (grappling, hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かくとう (definite answer, fight, fist fight, fisticuffs, grappling, hand-to-hand fighting, melee, scuffle, square hand-lantern, wrestling), はくへいせ" (hand-to-hand combat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

and-to-handhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

combate corpo a corpo (grapple, hand-to-hand fighting). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рукопашный (hand to hand). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

borba prsa u prsa (hand-to-hand fighting, melee). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

de mano a mano. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

handgemäng (hand-to-hand fighting, mêlée, melee, scrimmage, scuffle). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งประชิ"ตัว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

göğüs göğüse kavga (close, hand-to-hand fighting, scrimmage), göğüs göğüse çarpışma (close combat, dogfight, hand-to-hand combat, single combat). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sát nhau, giáp lá c . (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hand-to-hand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-h-h-n-n-o-t"

-5 letters: donna, hodad, honan, honda.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hand-to-hand


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

48 61 6E 64 2D 74 6F 2D 68 61 6E 64

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

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

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#116 &#111 &#45 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0064 002D 0074 006F 002D 0068 0061 006E 0064

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

426780701586811574678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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