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"ref": "2011, Ralph & Phyllis Nansen, Stone Boat Odyssey, page 251",
"text": "I don't think she knew what a relief that was, because I would have been poor help for Ralph as a one-handed crew.",
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},
{
"ref": "1884, Good Words Volume 25, page 67",
"text": "Holding intercourse with Sir William at this date partook a good deal of the nature of a one-handed conversation, and the one-handedness seemed to increase when the only share of the host, in the post-prandial conviviality, consisted in passing the decanters, which Sir William was scrupulous to do.",
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}
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],
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]
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"en:Chemistry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010 November, PD Barata, AI Costa, LFV Ferreira, JV Prata, “Synthesis, structure, and optical properties of an alternating calix [4] arene-based meta-linked phenylene ethynylene copolymer”, in Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, volume 48, number 22, page 5040",
"text": "Because of the m-phenylene linkage along the polymer main chain, the inherent propensity to generate foldamers has been explored in several ways, and the induction of one-handed polymer helicity been achieved.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation."
],
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[
"chemistry",
"chemistry"
],
[
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"chiral"
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],
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],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
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"natural-sciences",
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}
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"word": "onehanded"
}
],
"word": "one-handed"
}
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"English adverbs",
"English compound terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English parasynthetic adjectives",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "on-hande"
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"name": "inh"
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"args": {
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"t": "one-handed"
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"name": "inh"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
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"expansion": "By surface analysis, one + handed",
"name": "surf"
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "einhändig",
"t": "one-handed"
},
"expansion": "German einhändig (“one-handed”)",
"name": "cog"
},
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"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "enhänt"
},
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"name": "cog"
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"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "en-handad",
"t": "one-handed"
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"expansion": "en-handad (“one-handed”)",
"name": "m"
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"args": {
"1": "is",
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"t": "one-handed"
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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ān-hende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).",
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{
"text": "She waved to us and lost her balance; riding a bicycle one-handed is tricky."
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart",
"text": "She fanned the fire one-handed, cooked, swept the yard, pulled weeds out of the tomato beds, washed longyis and towels, and even developed a technique to wring them out one-handed—all because she did not want to put her son down.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Linda MacDonald, A Meeting of a Different Kind",
"text": "Felicity prepares him meals he can eat one-handed, and when they have a roast, she cuts up the meat into bite-sized portions as she once did for the children.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games",
"text": "Doing it half-drunk wasn't all that hard. Doing it one-handed was hard but not insurmountable. Doing it one-handed and half-drunk was...The damned screws didn't want to stay in the plastic, and the instructions for putting a V-8 engine together had to be easier than this!",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Using only one hand; one-handedly."
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"not-comparable"
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"English terms with quotations"
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{
"text": "He's a terrible snooker player. I could beat him one-handed!"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Rigby, The runaway ball, page 5",
"text": "That's when Brandon noticed the five kids were laughing at him. \"Are you the best player in Springton?\" asked one. \"Hah! We could beat you one-handed!\" shouted another. \"We could beat you blindfolded!\" said a third.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Stephen Leather, Bill Grose, The Vets, page 48",
"text": "This isn't going to be a competition, College Boy. It's going to be a walkover. I could beat you one-handed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea: The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy #3, page 93",
"text": "As rough as you look 'round the edges this morning, I could take you one-handed. Seriously, you can go into the kitchen and have your coffee in peace and in quiet.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Very easily, without effort."
],
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"(figuratively) Very easily, without effort."
],
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}
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{
"word": "onehanded"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ednorǎk",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "еднорък"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "manc"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "manchot"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "toco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "manco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "coto"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "gidem",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "גידם"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "félkezű"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "einhentur"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "con una mano"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "ūnimanus"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "ānhende"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "jednoręki"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "maneta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "manco"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having only one hand",
"word": "enhänt"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "za edna rǎka",
"sense": "using only one hand",
"word": "за една ръка"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "using only one hand",
"word": "einhändig"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "using only one hand",
"word": "ānhende"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "using only one hand",
"word": "enhands-"
}
],
"word": "one-handed"
}
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