Traducción de hand en Español:

hand

mano, n.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciación /hand//hænd/

nombre

1
Anatomía
mano femenino
I received it from the king's own hand — lo recibí de manos del rey
- with one's own hands — con sus (or mis etc.) propias manos
- to give sb one's hand — darle la mano a algn
- they were holding hands when they arrived — llegaron tomados / agarrados de la mano
- I took Mary's hand in mine to take her across the road — le di la mano a Mary para cruzar la calle
- he took me by the hand — me cogió de la mano
- we were all on our hands and knees, looking for the ring — estábamos todos a gatas / en cuatro patas, buscando el anillo
- he wouldn't give it to me even if I went down on my hands and knees — no me lo daría ni aunque se lo pidiera de rodillas
- to have/hold sth in one's hands — tener/llevar algo en la mano
- to hold on with both hands — agarrarse / sujetarse con las dos manos
- to hold out one's hand to sb — tenderle la mano a algn
- to put one's hand up / to raise one's hand — levantar la mano
- from hand to hand — de mano en mano
- a piece for four hands — una pieza para cuatro manos
- hand-sewn / -stitched — cosido a mano
- hand-painted — pintado a mano
- Fingers, thumbs and hands were broken in combat, but there are few visible signs of the mutilation.
- She holds a vessel in one hand and a cloth in another as she pours a libation before him.
- I raised both of my hands, palms outward, and performed some of the most basic bhangra moves.
- Flatten the pieces out in the palm of your hand, stretching with your fingers.
- He ties the man's hand in front of his chest with a length of gauze, and wraps the body in a sheet.
- She grinned and pulled a triangle of white paper out of her pocket and put it in Faith's hand.
- Ever since she has taken to wearing her bag over her shoulder with her other hand pushed through the handles and in her pocket.
- Drop the pulleys to the lowest setting, grasp a handle in each hand and lie back on the bench.
- Father and son put their hands palm to palm, separated by the glass.
- After burning incense on the stove, he began to chant, holding out his hands with his palms upward.
- Four days later he developed a mild temperature, a sore throat, blisters on the palms of his hands and weals on his tongue.
- Hold your hands, palms downwards, over the cloth and send your witch-power into the herbs.
- He suddenly cries out in pain as the hot knife handle burns his hand, but he doesn't let go.
- The rash doesn't itch and is usually on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
- Martindale's hand was up in the air like a schoolboy waiting for the teacher to call on him.
- Squeeze the soil ball between your thumb and fingers in the palm of your hand to make a ribbon.
- She was holding a duffel bag and pair of high heels in one hand, and a bottle of Tylenol in the other.
- He opened his eyes, looking up to see the woman's hand holding a damp cloth to his face.
- Fold the thumb of the left hand into the palm of the hand and wrap the fingers around the thumb.
- The spike from the fence went through his wrist and into the palm of his hand.
2
- 2.1(agency)
  mano femenino
  the hand of God/Fate — la mano de Dios/del destino
  to die by one's own hand — quitarse la vida
  She has no doubt that Irving had a big hand in her rise to the top ranks of the world's squash players.
  He had a hand in all four goals that gave Celtic an astonishing victory over the Serie A giants.
  Reg Goodfellow, with two goals and two assists, had a hand in all four La Broquerie goals.
  Dave Robinson starred as he scored one and had a hand in the other four goals.
  Ms Bradford, who is in the House today, had a big hand in helping us with the process of planning.
  Generous in his praise of those around him, Lewis singled out his mother, who is reported to have had a big hand in his retirement.
  Keep in mind, the broad that runs this joint had a big hand in helping these folks out.
  He scored a fine individual try, had a big hand in Austerfield's brace and threatened the Batley line time and again.
- 2.2informal (assistance)
  do you need/want a hand with that? — ¿te echo / doy una mano con eso?
  if you need a hand — si necesitas ayuda
  "Do you need a hand?" I ask.
  Bradford's Industrial Museum has been giving a helping hand to a textile archive in Leeds.
- 2.3hands plural(possession, control, care)
  the contract is now in the hands of the lawyer — ahora el contrato está en manos del abogado
  your future lies in your own hands — tú eres dueño de tu futuro
  can I leave the matter in your hands? — ¿puedo dejar el asunto en tus manos?
  in private hands — en manos (de) particulares
  in good/capable hands — en buenas manos
  my life is in your hands — mi vida depende de ti
  how did that vase come into your hands? — ¿cómo llegó a tus manos ese jarrón?
3
(side)
on sb's right/left hand — a la derecha/izquierda de algn
4
- 4.1Juegos
  (set of cards)
  mano femenino
  cartas femenino
  a good/poor hand — buenas/malas cartas
  The event promises to be a great day out and full of fun as we raise money to help the unfortunates dealt such a cruel hand in life.
  When I came back out, Torin had dealt us both a hand and had a steaming mug of hot chocolate laid out for me.
  Michael then asks Heather if she's ever felt that she's been dealt a bad hand.
  Yes, he was dealt a hard hand by fate, but should he have gone the way he did?
  If the joker is turned up, there are no wild cards and the value of the hand is doubled.
  If anyone else has these in their hand at the end of a round their entire hand is worthless!
  Paul won almost by default because of Jon's lousy hand in the first round.
  Even at this stage of life fate dealt a tough hand to Matty as far as his family was concerned, he was never to see them again.
  Players are dealt a hand of five cards and play is around the table as one would expect.
  Up to dinner I played very well with the little that I was given, only going into about four or five hands and winning them all.
  There will be a new hand dealt in Malaysia and I think that we have a chance of doing well.
  This is the equivalent of slow-playing a brilliant hand at poker, so that you draw in your prey.
  You may draw the top card off the stock pile, and then discard one card from your hand.
  Alice de Souza has dealt herself a winning hand and she has played it skillfully.
  It's like being dealt a hand of cards, before arranging them into suits.
  But to be Franck is to be polite, cultured and dignified enough to accept the hand dealt by the game's fates.
  Even if you are dealt a bad hand, you might still see or raise a bet, or even bet all your chips at once.
  The total value of all the cards in the hands of the other players is added to the winner's cumulative score.
  The same applies if a team has a meld of less than seven pure aces and three or more aces in a player's hand.
  In case of a tie between two hands, the discarded card is used to decide which is better.
- 4.2Juegos
  (round of card game)
  mano femenino
  There is bad news today for any bald, guitar-playing Afghani who likes a hand of Bridge.
  When one player has won four tricks, the hand is over and that player is the winner.
  He played golf into his late 80s, tended a large garden, and played a fine hand at bridge.
- 4.3Juegos
  (player)
  jugador masculino
  jugadora femenino
5
- 5.1(worker)
  obrero masculino
  obrera femenino
  farm hand — peón masculino
  they're taking on new hands — están contratando más mano de obra / más trabajadores
  She had starred at the wood each morning since she had been hired as a hand on farm at the age of 12.
  It concerns a factory hand who is sent to Coventry by his co-workers when he refuses to go on strike.
  All of the horses had to be led down to the bottom of the field by stable hands as firefighters dealt with the flames.
  She ordered one of the stable hands to put the horse back in his stall, and left the training ring.
  She nodded as if agreeing with him and then called over some stable hands to take the horses.
  Poor bastard must wake up in a shipwreck every morning - hands on the mast and seamen everywhere.
  Roger also worked as a bus boy, a kitchen hand, and a labourer on many different sites.
  When they reached the castle she gave her horse to a stable hand and headed for her room.
  Hanssen's ship now looks ready to go down with all hands on board.
  Workers back then were beings with blue collars, drivers or wharfies or factory hands.
  The village itself, built to house agricultural hands, now has just two men thus employed.
  He had a stable hand hitch up the horses and then he helped Lydia up into the buggy.
- 5.2Marina
  marinero masculino
  the hands gathered on the foredeck — la marinería se congregó en la cubierta de proa
  the ship went down with all hands — el barco se hundió con toda la tripulación a bordo
- 5.3(experienced person)
  an old hand — una veterana
  he's an old hand at negotiating — tiene mucha experiencia en negociaciones
6coloquial
(applause)
a big hand — un gran aplauso
- let's have a really big hand for … — un gran aplauso para …
- Let's give them each a big hand.
- Step forward our friends at - you guessed it, give them a big hand - Scotland on Sunday.
- What scares me is that many of those who voted for her in the past now think she's insane, and yet she gets a big hand abroad.
7literario
(handwriting)
letra femenino
she writes a neat/clear hand — tiene buena letra/una letra muy clara
- the letter was in her own hand — la carta era de su puño y letra
- This manuscript is written in a bold hand, with black ink, and is illuminated with rude portraits of the Evangelists.
- Even fountain pens, though invented around 1884, were thought to be incompatible with a neat hand, and ballpoints were definitely the devil's invention.
8
(on a clock)
manecilla femenino
aguja femenino
the hour hand — la manecilla / la aguja de las horas
- the minute hand — el minutero
- the second hand — el segundero
- He glanced at the clock, the big hand on the twelve and the small one on the nine.
- What kind of food makes people weep or sets them moving around a table like the hands of a clock?
- I could barely make out the golden hands of the clock in the dim light of the candle.
- He closed his eyes and the clock's hands began to whirl, the numbers glowing softly.
- The hands of the clock began to spin so fast that each minute the clock chimed a new hour.
- Jane swung the bulk of her pack onto her right shoulder like the hand of a clock striking zero hour.
- Rotating his body like the hand of a clock, he shuffled around the lamb, examining it from every angle.
- The gigantic hands of the clock watching over us up on the wall made me impatient.
- The hands of Bella's clock quietly ticked away as she stared down at the five outfits on her bed.
- In fact, the hands of the clock above the mirrored bar stand still, encouraging you to linger.
- I have a pint of Guinness as we chat and then a second as the clock hands crawl past one.
- Time passes again, the same clock hands spin madly, the same bells ring and the same chimes chime.
- As what seemed to be the result of the flash, the three hands of the clock began to speed up.
- That is, the hands of the circadian clock are moved forward or backwards.
- There was a clock and the hands would move when a fast food company sold x amount of burgers.
- The clock's hands pointed at the twelve and six, reflecting his initial sense of time.
- She glances up at the clock then places a hand on her chest, always the drama queen.
- But then the clock beside it has hands and ticks, which probably dates it a bit.
- Everywhere I looked were clocks without hands and forks without knives.
9
(measurement of horse)
palmo masculino
- How many hands high was Secretariat?
- Direct Access is no pony himself and at 17 hands is the biggest horse in Lungo's yard.

verbo transitivo

1
to hand sb sth
- to hand sth to sb — pasarle algo a algn
- could you hand me that hammer, please? — ¿me pasas ese martillo, por favor?
- she handed the book to her father — le pasó el libro a su padre
- he was handed a stiff sentence — le impusieron una pena severa
- Smith handed Jones an easy victory — Smith le regaló la victoria a Jones
- But Hughes has no qualms about handing another starring role to teenager Dean Lord.
- One of our members handed it into the school at 5pm to be passed to the board.
- I picked up the red t-shirt off the carpet and handed it to him, watching as he slipped it over his head.
- When she found out Mr Rose had changed his mind and handed the honour to Miss Loos, she was determined she wouldn't let it lie.
- He picked up the beer and handed it to the man before turning and making his way down the corridor.
- Marty had bent down and picked up my books and handed them back to me without a word.
- His second hour students were already pouring into class as he handed them both a pass.
- Hastily he picked the book up and handed it to her and bowed his head before standing.
- Someone threw it over the barriers and the security guard picked it up and handed it to me!
- Today, in the absence of a real fans' favourite, Reyna may find himself handed an important role.
- Kneeling down, she handed the dog a treat and picked it up, scooping it carefully with her arm.
- The scheme was given a huge boost by council chiefs who handed the organisation a £25,000 grant.
- There's something really great about getting actual mail in your actual mailbox, or handing a card to someone.
- After handing her horse to a stableboy waiting nearby, Kayin took a deep breath and entered.
- Morgan finally dug up a gemstone, picked it up and handed it to Evelyn, who put it in a bag.
- I was just about to bend over and pick it up when who should hand it to me but John himself.
- At present, all tax receipts go to the UK Treasury and money is handed back to Scotland in the form of a block grant.
- The guy behind the counter hands Jason the monkey and Jason gives him the tickets.
- He starts to cry and kind-hearted Beckham walks past, picks the car out the mud, cleans it and hands it back to him.