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handset
English
Etymology
hand +? set
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæn(d)s?t/
Noun
handset (plural handsets)
- The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
- A mobile phone.
- 2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 311:
- Similarly, the handset can see more than one base station. Because the positions (longitude and latitude) of the base stations/Node Bs are known, then either a Node B or handset can work out the handset’s position.
- 2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 311:
Translations
See also
- headset
Anagrams
- Hestand, handest, snathed
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handsel
English
Alternative forms
- hansel
Etymology
From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hænd.s?l/, /?hæn.s?l/
Noun
handsel (plural handsels)
- (obsolete) A lucky omen.
- A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
- their first good handsel of breath in this world
- 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides
- Our present tears here, not our present laughter, / Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
- (archaic) Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
- 1612, Joseph Hall, "Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old Testament"
- "I see the first handsel that God gives them on their voyage to the Land of Promise; thirst and bitterness."
- (From Contemplations, Book Five, Contemplation 1, The Waters of Marah (Found in volume 1 of The Works of Joseph
- Hall, edited by Peter Hall, published by Talboys, Oxford, 1837, page 88))
- And as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.
- 1612, Joseph Hall, "Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old Testament"
Derived terms
- Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or presents are given to servants, children, etc.
Translations
Verb
handsel (third-person singular simple present handsels, present participle handselling or handseling, simple past and past participle handselled or handseled)
- (transitive) To give a handsel to.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.55:
- She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.55:
- (transitive) To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86:
- And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86:
- (transitive) To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
- Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.
- […] the success of the one did not handsel usurpation […] of the other's.
Derived terms
- unhandseled
Anagrams
- Dahlens, handles
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