"hand out" meaning in English

See hand out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Audio: En-au-hand out.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} hand out
  1. (baseball, slang, 1800s) a player is out Tags: slang Categories (topical): Baseball
    Sense id: en-hand_out-en-phrase-ViacgDlE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 24 25 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 50 33 16 Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Verb

Audio: En-au-hand out.ogg [Australia] Forms: hands out [present, singular, third-person], handing out [participle, present], handed out [participle, past], handed out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} hand out (third-person singular simple present hands out, present participle handing out, simple past and past participle handed out)
  1. (transitive) To distribute; to give out. Tags: transitive Translations (to distribute): 分配 (fēnpèi) (Chinese Mandarin), distribuer (French), verteilen (German), austeilen (German), útbýta (Icelandic), dreifa (Icelandic), distribuire (Italian), 配る (kubaru) (alt: くばる) (Japanese), 配布する (haifu suru) (alt: はいふする) (Japanese), distribuō (Latin), dele ut (Norwegian Bokmål), fordele (Norwegian Bokmål), distribuere (Norwegian Bokmål), rozdać [perfective] (Polish), rozdawać [imperfective] (Polish), distribuir (Portuguese), distribui (Romanian), раздава́ть (razdavátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), разда́ть (razdátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), делити (deliti) (Serbo-Croatian), dağıtmak (Turkish), роздава́ти (rozdaváty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), розда́ти (rozdáty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-hand_out-en-verb-YqJHKeqO Disambiguation of 'to distribute': 98 2
  2. To help (someone) from a vehicle.
    Sense id: en-hand_out-en-verb-WqZN456a

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hand out meaning in English (6.1kB)

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