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Meaning of "hand-off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAND-OFF

hand-off play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAND-OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hand-Off is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hand-off in English.

WHAT DOES HAND-OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hand-off in the English dictionary

The definition of hand-off in the dictionary is the act of warding off an opposing player with the open hand. Other definition of hand-off is to ward off using a hand-off.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HAND-OFF

PRESENT

Present
I hand-off
you hand-off
he/she/it hand-offs
we hand-off
you hand-off
they hand-off
Present continuous
I am hand-offing
you are hand-offing
he/she/it is hand-offing
we are hand-offing
you are hand-offing
they are hand-offing
Present perfect
I have hand-offed
you have hand-offed
he/she/it has hand-offed
we have hand-offed
you have hand-offed
they have hand-offed
Present perfect continuous
I have been hand-offing
you have been hand-offing
he/she/it has been hand-offing
we have been hand-offing
you have been hand-offing
they have been hand-offing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I hand-offed
you hand-offed
he/she/it hand-offed
we hand-offed
you hand-offed
they hand-offed
Past continuous
I was hand-offing
you were hand-offing
he/she/it was hand-offing
we were hand-offing
you were hand-offing
they were hand-offing
Past perfect
I had hand-offed
you had hand-offed
he/she/it had hand-offed
we had hand-offed
you had hand-offed
they had hand-offed
Past perfect continuous
I had been hand-offing
you had been hand-offing
he/she/it had been hand-offing
we had been hand-offing
you had been hand-offing
they had been hand-offing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hand-off
you will hand-off
he/she/it will hand-off
we will hand-off
you will hand-off
they will hand-off
Future continuous
I will be hand-offing
you will be hand-offing
he/she/it will be hand-offing
we will be hand-offing
you will be hand-offing
they will be hand-offing
Future perfect
I will have hand-offed
you will have hand-offed
he/she/it will have hand-offed
we will have hand-offed
you will have hand-offed
they will have hand-offed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hand-offing
you will have been hand-offing
he/she/it will have been hand-offing
we will have been hand-offing
you will have been hand-offing
they will have been hand-offing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hand-off
you would hand-off
he/she/it would hand-off
we would hand-off
you would hand-off
they would hand-off
Conditional continuous
I would be hand-offing
you would be hand-offing
he/she/it would be hand-offing
we would be hand-offing
you would be hand-offing
they would be hand-offing
Conditional perfect
I would have hand-off
you would have hand-off
he/she/it would have hand-off
we would have hand-off
you would have hand-off
they would have hand-off
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hand-offing
you would have been hand-offing
he/she/it would have been hand-offing
we would have been hand-offing
you would have been hand-offing
they would have been hand-offing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hand-off
we let´s hand-off
you hand-off
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hand-off
Past participle
hand-offed
Present Participle
hand-offing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAND-OFF

hand-drier
hand-dryer
hand-held
hand-knit
hand-knitted
hand-knitting
hand-list
hand-loomed
hand-me-down
hand-me-up
hand-out
hand-painted
hand-pick
hand-picked
hand-piece
hand-play
hand-printed
hand-rear
hand-reared
hand-spray

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAND-OFF

browned-off
cut-off
drop-off
face-off
kick-off
lead-off
mid-off
on-off
one-off
play-off
pull-off
roll-on-roll-off
roll-on/roll-off
sawed-off
set-off
show-off
showing-off
spin-off
stop-off
turn-off

Synonyms and antonyms of hand-off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hand-off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAND-OFF

Find out the translation of hand-off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hand-off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hand-off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

越区切换
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hand-off
570 millions of speakers

English

hand-off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हाथ से बंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ومن ناحية قبالة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рука -офф
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hand-off
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাত বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hand-off
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menyerahkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hand-Off
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハンドオフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

핸드 오프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tangan-mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tay -off
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கை ஆஃப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हाताने बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dokunma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mano - off
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hand - off
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рука - офф
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mână - off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χέρι -off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hand -off
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hand-off
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hand -off
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hand-off

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAND-OFF»

The term «hand-off» is regularly used and occupies the 62.920 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAND-OFF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hand-off» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hand-off» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hand-off

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAND-OFF»

Discover the use of hand-off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hand-off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
M2 Instrumentation and Control, Third Edition
Figure 3-16 Motor circuit with local–remote switch Hand Off Auto Figure 3-17 Hand-off–auto switch L N 1 3 2 4 S1 S2 Local Remote G Stopped R Running M 1 M positions, and the positions can have different names. The name of each position ...
2
Hand-off
Pablo is a natural athlete but when he joins his friends' football team for the first time he is intimidated by the bigger, more experienced players, and the pressure keeps him from doing his best.
Michael Teitelbaum, 2009
3
Illegal Procedure or a Good Hand-Off
ILLEGAL PROCEDURE OR A GOOD HAND-OFF? ETHICAL CONDUCT OR INSUBORDINATION? David Siegel * Attending a Hamilton Tigcr-Cat football game is a unique experience. A pudgy man named "Pigskin Pete" in a black and yellow ...
David Siegel, 1993
4
Meeting the Joint Commission's 2007 National Patient Safety ...
changes. The information communicated during a hand off must be accurate in order to meet patient safety goals. In health care there are numerous types of patient hand offs, including but not limited to nursing shift changes, physicians ...
‎2006
5
The Team Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective ...
This process of increasing authority begins when the coach creates the team hand-off plan (Figure 1-2), which details the tasks that will be handed to the self- directed team over the coming months. The hand-off plan and RACI chart are ...
Deborah Mackin, 2007
6
Wireless Communications
Major hand-off initiation techniques include relative RSSI, relative RSSI with threshold value, relative RSSI with hysteresis, and relative RSSI with hysteresis and threshold. (a) In the relative RSSI technique, the RSSI levels are measured over ...
T. L. Singal, 2010
7
A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK)
This hand-off may trigger a registration criterion to be met so that the MS will update the network with its new location via a registration message. However, in many cases the network will not know or be concerned that the MS is monitoring a ...
Andrzej Jajszczyk, 2012
8
Adapting Strategies from High-reliability Organizations to ...
Goals for the Hand-off 1 03 6.3 .2. Hand-off Strategies Used Consistently 1 06 6.3 .3. Strategies Used Occasionally 1 08 6.3.4. Strategies Not Used 1 1 1 6.3.5. Documentation Used in the Hand-off 112 6.4. A Conceptual Model of the Hand- off 1 ...
Ingrid Philibert, 2008
9
Implementing and Sustaining Improvement in Health Care
Requirement 2E Implement a standardized approach to "hand-off' communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions. Rationale for Requirement 2E The primary objective of a "hand off" is to provide accurate ...
Lisa Schilling, 2009
10
Nursing Assistant: A Nursing Process Approach - Basics
In hand-off communication, one worker communicates directly with the next person who will be responsible for the patient's care. Transfer of care is a very vulnerable time for the patient and is one of the times when errors are most likely to ...
Barbara Hegner, Barbara Acello, Esther Caldwell, 2009

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAND-OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hand-off is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Home care for Ontario seniors affected by move to non-profit agencies
The solution, quietly introduced by the Ontario government in regulatory changes last summer, is a provincewide hand-off of care to local ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand on Marijuana?
And I think this is a very dangerous precedent this president has started,” he continued, referring to the Obama administration's mostly hand-off ... «Marijuana.com, Jul 15»
3
Film Study: How Marcus Thornton can help the Rockets offense
Here's an example from this past season. The player coming off the screen and getting the dribble hand-off is Ariza, but you'll get the point. «The Dream Shake, Jul 15»
4
Jimmy Graham will transform Seattle's offense and how it is defended
Not just from the backfield via hand-off or with his own legs. Great offensive minds — make no mistake, Bevell is one of them — adapt to their ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
5
General tackles 'politically tricky' Gitmo command
"He would arrive here about a week prior to that, and then do a hand-off from commander to commander, but he would already be pre-briefed ... «AirForceTimes.com, Jul 15»
6
Fox brings its own Marvel universe to SDCC with Deadpool …
Jackman then left the stage -- a symbolic hand-off to the new generation of X-Men, perhaps -- as Singer and the cast of X-Men: Apocalypse filed ... «Blastr, Jul 15»
7
Smoothing the hand-off between medical providers
Winslow Townson for The Boston Globe. Eric Chetwynd of Curaspan focuses on filling in the gaps for patients. When patients are transferred ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
8
Strickling: Congress Will Vet Domain Name Hand-off
The House Communications Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday (July 8) on the plan to transition oversight of ICANN's domain naming ... «Multichannel News, Jul 15»

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