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Definition: Hand-to-hand |
Hand-to-handAdjective1. 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). |
Crosswords: Hand-to-hand |
| English words defined with "hand-to-hand": grapple, grappling ♦ hand-to-hand struggle ♦ rassling ♦ trench knife ♦ wrestle, wrestling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.74% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Adverb (general) | 3.95% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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), 闘 (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. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-h-h-n-n-o-t" | |
-5 letters: donna, hodad, honan, honda. | |
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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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n d - t o - h a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 0064 002D 0074 006F 002D 0068 0061 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426780701586811574678070 |
| 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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