Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Working or done without help; unassisted.
- adjective Intended for use with one hand.
- adjective Having or using only one hand.
- adjective Nautical Of, being, or restricted to a one-person sailing crew.
- adverb In a single-handed manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having only one hand.
- Working without the aid of other hands or workmen; acting alone; unassisted.
- Capable of being used, managed, or executed with one hand or by one person: as, a single-handed fishing-rod; a single-handed undertaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
help from others;unassisted . - adjective Using only one
hand . - adjective Designed for only one hand.
- adverb In a single-handed manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without help from others
- adjective unsupported by other people
- adverb without assistance
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Examples
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Brother Kevin slammed a barely believable 113 runs off 63 balls, the fastest century in a World Cup, to win the England game almost single-handed.
Ireland, the Cup's Other Winners Richard Lord 2011
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Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
Chapter 8 2010
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During her 'gap year', as she described it, she found time to row single-handed around the world backwards, and also carried out the first solo trek by a woman to both Poles, in doing so beating Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'long-standing speed record.
Obituary - Jade Goody 1981-2009 Dungeekin 2009
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Her radical approach to community relations led to the implementation of a stable unity government in Zimbabwe, and she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her single-handed resolution of the conflict in Sudan.
Obituary - Jade Goody 1981-2009 Dungeekin 2009
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Her radical approach to community relations led to the implementation of a stable unity government in Zimbabwe, and she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her single-handed resolution of the conflict in Sudan.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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I am hopeful that China will emerge as a partner to the U.S. on such issues as terrorism, disaster relief, and nation-building, but we should be aware that as we have made economic choices to pursue these objectives in an almost single-handed fashion, we now find our economy exposed to a trading partner whose interests may differ from ours.
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I am hopeful that China will emerge as a partner to the U.S. on such issues as terrorism, disaster relief, and nation-building, but we should be aware that as we have made economic choices to pursue these objectives in an almost single-handed fashion, we now find our economy exposed to a trading partner whose interests may differ from ours.
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No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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I am hopeful that China will emerge as a partner to the U.S. on such issues as terrorism, disaster relief, and nation-building, but we should be aware that as we have made economic choices to pursue these objectives in an almost single-handed fashion, we now find our economy exposed to a trading partner whose interests may differ from ours.
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During her 'gap year', as she described it, she found time to row single-handed around the world backwards, and also carried out the first solo trek by a woman to both Poles, in doing so beating Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'long-standing speed record.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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