Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Drawn by hand without the aid of tracing or drafting devices.
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- adjective
Drawn using thehand without any helping device. - verb To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm pretty good with geography and drawing all the states freehand is a lot tougher than it looks.
He's good enough, he's smart enough... (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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 I spent a lot of time pounding out the clay into flat slabs, cutting it to size, and then (hardest of all) trailing stained slip freehand from a bottle.
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Not mere utilitarian drawing-to-scale and making plans and elevations, but "freehand" - drawing, the reproducing of meaningless twirly curves and twiddly twists from symmetrical conventional "copies".
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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This time, Monica's creating papel with tiny dangling butterflies and suns, all sort of done in freehand.
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This time, Monica's creating papel with tiny dangling butterflies and suns, all sort of done in freehand.
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The first product, the Confident Surgery Suite 300, of SurgicEye implements the so called freehand SPECT technology for detection, localization and guided biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer.
Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox High-Tech Gr�nderfonds Management GmbH 2010
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Yes | No | Report from combat. medic wrote 3 weeks 3 days ago botht the bowline and hitch are easier to tie "freehand" or in the air. the hitch you make a loop in the rope, then a second loop, and criss-cross the loops ... kinda hard to explain without being right there showing you.
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Yes | No | Report from combat. medic wrote 3 weeks 3 days ago botht the bowline and hitch are easier to tie "freehand" or in the air. the hitch you make a loop in the rope, then a second loop, and criss-cross the loops ... kinda hard to explain without being right there showing you.
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The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions had also been asked to make available a senior member of its staff and the directorate would have a "freehand" in conducting its own investigations.
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He was attempting to cut the board "freehand" without the rip fence, according to the documents.
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Nicholas 2010
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