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HAND OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To surrender someone or something to another
Example:
fork over the money
Synonyms:
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "hand over" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hand over"):
bail (deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period)
give away (formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
handover (act of relinquishing property or authority etc)
Context examples:
The shoemaker heard him, and he jumped up and ran out in his shirt-sleeves, and stood looking up at the bird on the roof with his hand over his eyes to keep himself from being blinded by the sun.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
After severely comparing one with another, and making entries on the tablets, and blotting them out, and counting all the fingers of her left hand over and over again, backwards and forwards, she would be so vexed and discouraged, and would look so unhappy, that it gave me pain to see her bright face clouded—and for me!—and I would go softly to her, and say: What's the matter, Dora?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then she drew her hand over her eyes, for one of her boyish habits was never to know where her handkerchief was, and had just managed to call up a smile when there came a knock at the porch door.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times and at last turned back into the house.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“So am I,” said he, passing his hand over his forehead.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then you hand over to me three quarters of what you earn, and you keep the other quarter for yourself.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He put his hand over part of the map.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could see easily, for we did not leave the room in darkness; she had placed a warning hand over my mouth, and now she whispered in my ear:—"Hush! there is someone in the corridor!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But his eyes did light upon me, and looked squarely into mine; and he did see me, for he sprang to the wheel, thrusting the other man aside, and whirled it round and round, hand over hand, at the same time shouting orders of some sort.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That, perhaps, it was a little unreasonable that these registrars in the receipt of profits amounting to eight or nine thousand pounds a year (to say nothing of the profits of the deputy registrars, and clerks of seats), should not be obliged to spend a little of that money, in finding a reasonably safe place for the important documents which all classes of people were compelled to hand over to them, whether they would or no.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
