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by hand

by hand prepositional phrase: manually; without the use of automation or machines.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Manually; without the use of automation or machines.
    • The computers went down and they had to do all the bookkeeping by hand that day.
    • Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.
    • “With the margin being so close, it will require a full by hand recount in each county,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said at a news conference in Atlanta. “This will help build confidence.”2020 November 11, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021
  2. Without suckling it.
    • to bring up an infant by hand
    • That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits’ end, so Mrs. Thomas said, what to do with me. [...] Finally Mrs. Thomas said she’d take me, though she was poor and had a drunken husband. She brought me up by hand. Do you know if there is anything in being brought up by hand that ought to make...1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

by hand meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

by hand in Tamil

கயால் கவினயால், கையால்

by hand in Urdu

ہاتھ کا

by hand in Malayalam

കൈയുപയോഗിച്ച്

by hand in Kannada

ಖುದ್ದಾಗಿ, ಮುದ್ದಾಂ

Examples of by hand in a sentence

  • A full set costs $245 and takes around 10 to 14 days to make by hand.2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN, archived from the original...
  • Do you know if there is anything in being brought up by hand that ought to make people who are brought up that way better than other people?1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

Questions about by hand

What does by hand mean?
By hand means manually; without the use of automation or machines.
What is by hand in Tamil?
By hand in Tamil is கயால் கவினயால், கையால். See By hand meaning in Tamil.
How do you use by hand in a sentence?
A full set costs $245 and takes around 10 to 14 days to make by hand.
What part of speech is by hand?
By hand is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by hand in the dictionary

  1. by guess or by gosh
  2. by gum
  3. by gummy
  4. by half
  5. by halves
  6. by hand
  7. by heart
  8. by heavens
  9. by hell
  10. by hook and by crook
  11. by hook or by crook

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: by hand (page history and authors); by hand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); by hand (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); by hand (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); by hand (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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