Hand Out

Definition: Hand Out

Hand Out

Verb

1. Give out freely.

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

Synonyms: Hand Out

Falsehood

Cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive.

Ostentation

Show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes.

Crosswords: Hand Out

I know what you're going to say, but we don't hand out Brownie points for helping people kill themselves. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)

You have to hand out towels and water bottles, you have to show them the hiking trails, and you have to let them give you a nature name. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Well, if you don't get your hand out of there, you're gonna have a classic case of Foot-Stuck-In-Ass. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

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

Woman with hand out and baby on ground. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man seated with hand out. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jewish man with hand out. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Al put his hand out of the cab to feel them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Under Phoenix, workers will own a third of the company, and Phoenix also plans to hand out shares to Rover dealers. (references)

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

Expression using "hand out": hand out bribes. Additional references.

Albanian

shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضى ب (discover), ‏وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), ‏أسرف (flirt, ladle, overindulgence, strain a point). (various references)

Bulgarian 

раздавам (administer, administrate, allot, apportion, deal out, dispense, distribute, give away, give out, hand about, measure, mete out, parcel out, pass out), харча (invest, lay out, spend), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Czech

rozdat (give away, hand around, hand round, pass out), rozdìlit (allot, apportion, carve up, deal out, disjoin, dismember, dispense, dissever, distribute, divide, divide out, divide up, give away, hand around, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, portion, separate, share, split), rozdávat (administer, give out), pomoci (give a hand, help, help smb. down from, lend a hand, relieve, serve, stead, to help), nadìlit. (various references)

Dutch

uitreiken van aangifteformulier voor een televisietoestel;afgeven van aangifteformulier voor een televisietoestel;overhandigen van een aangifteformulier voor een televisietoestel (to issue a registration form for a television set;to hand out a registration form for a television set). (various references)

French

prodiguer, distribuer. (various references)

German

verteilen (allocate, allot, deal, deal out, deploy, dish out, dispense, disperse, distribute, divide, divide out, give away, give out, hand round, intersperse, lay out, quarter, scatter, separate, serve out, share, share out, spread, sprinkle, string out, to allot, to dispense, to distribute, to spread (out)), verhängen (award, cloud, cover, declare, hang up in the wrong place, impose, pass, veil), geben (accord, administer, allow, award, deal, give, give up, grant, hand, lend, make, pass, produce, provide, put, put on, send, serve, set, subscribe, take, teach, to give, utter), erteilen (accord, give, grant, issue, place), dosieren (batching, dispense, dose, measure out, meter, to dose, to meter), austeilen (administer, allot, deal, dish out, dispense, distribute, hand round, issue, parcel, to allot, to dispense, to give out, to hand out). (various references)

Greek 

μοιράζω (deal, dispense, distribute, divide, halve, pass out, share, share with, split). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלק (apportion, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, give out, parcel, part, partition, section, share, share out, sunder). (various references)

Hungarian

terít (to extend, to lay down one's hand, to lay the table, to set the table, to spread out, to stretch out), szétoszt (decentralize, distribute, divide, mete, partition, to allot, to apportion, to branch, to dispense, to distribute, to divide, to divvy, to mete out, to partition, to portion out, to share out, to space, to space out), kioszt (allocate, allot, deal out, dispense, give out, issue, to allocate, to allot, to assign, to deal out, to dispense, to distribute, to give out, to issue, to pass out, to portion out, to proportion, to section out, to share out, to zonk it to sy). (various references)

Italian

spendere (expend, pay out, spend), rilasciare (enable, free, give, grant, issue, leave again, relax, release, set free). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

分け与える (to distribute, to hand out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わけあたえる (to distribute, to hand out). (various references)

Manx

coyrt magh. (various references)

Pig Latin

andhay outay

Portuguese

entregar (charge, commit, consign, deliver, dispense, furnish, give, give in, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, lay down, part with, relinquish, render, serve, supply, turn in, turn over, yield), distribuir (allocate, allot, deliver, dispart, dispense, distribute, dole out, give out, parcel, portion, serve, share, spread). (various references)

Romanian

declaraţie oficialã datã presei. (various references)

Russian 

раздавать (deal, dispense, distribute, dole out, give out), тратить (expend, outlaid, spend, spends, spent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razdeliti (disjoin, divide, dole, dole out, fractionate, give out, part, pass out, piece out, portion, split), izdavati (get out, rent), izdati (betray, bring out, give away, issue, lay out, let, pass off, publish, sell out). (various references)

Spanish

repartir (allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, hand around, hand round, issue, measure out, parcel out, part, pass out, share out), distribuir para (dole out, ladle). (various references)

Swedish

reklamlapp (handbill, leaflet), gratisprov (free sample), gåva (accomplishment, aptitude, bounty, disposition, donation, dower, dowry, gift, gratuity, present, talent, token), dela ut (deal out, deliver, dish out, give away, issue, parcel, parcel out). (various references)

Turkish

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), bağışlamak (absolve, bestow, dispense, donate, endow, excuse, forgive, give away, give to charity, grant, hand over, have mercy, instate, kick in, pardon, remit, save). (various references)

Ukrainian

роздавати (allot, circulate, deal, hand around, hand round, partition, pass out, quash, share out), витрачати (consume, disburse, dispend, expend, spend, throw away, use, use up, ware, waste), допомогти вийти. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: handout.

-2 letters: daunt, donut, haunt, honda, hound, unhat.

-3 letters: aunt, auto, dato, daut, doat, dona, doth, dunt, hand, hant, haut, hunt, nota, oath, than, thou, thud, toad, tuna, undo, unto.

-4 letters: ado, and, ant, dah, don, dot, duh, dun, duo, had, hao, hat, hod, hon, hot, hun, hut, nah, nod, noh, not, nth, nut, oat.

+1 letter: aunthood, handouts, thousand.

+2 letters: anthodium, aunthoods, headcount, southland, staghound, thousands.

+3 letters: earthbound, headcounts, outlandish, outthanked, southlands, staghounds, thousandth.

+4 letters: badmouthing, dreadnought, handwrought, thousandths.

+5 letters: dreadnoughts, fountainhead, housetrained, outlandishly, thousandfold, unauthorized.