Near+at+hand
61Hand Picked Hotels — Hand Picked Hotels, set up by financier Guy Hands and his wife Julia, owns and operates a collection of individual and historic country house hotels. Julia, a former lawyer, now runs Hand Picked Hotels. TIMELINE 1999: Early in the year, the Hands …
62Hand-stopping — is a technique by which a natural horn can be made to produce notes outside of its normal harmonic series. By inserting the hand, cupped, into the bell, the player can reduce the pitch of a note by a semitone or more. This, combined with the use… …
63hand|y — «HAN dee», adjective, hand|i|er, hand|i|est. 1. easy to reach or use; saving work; useful; convenient: »a handy device. There were handy shelves near the kitchen sink …
64Near passerine — or higher land bird assemblage are terms often given to arboreal birds or those most often believed to be related to the true passerines (order Passeriformes) due to ecological similarities; the group corresponds to some extent with the… …
65near|by — «NIHR by», adjective, adverb, preposition. –adj., adv. near; close by; close at hand: »a nearby house (adj.). They went nearby to visit (adv.). –prep. Dialect. close to (a place) …
66Near East — The original Near East; that is, the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the eastern question. The term is only meaningful as a contrast to Far East. Much of the original extent is south; moreover, countries such as Greece disavow any association… …
67Hand of God (art) — The hand as an isolated motif. Fresco from Sant Climent de Taüll in Catalonia …
68hand — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fist, extremity; helper, workman, employee, laborer; handwriting; informal, applause, greeting. See writing, approbation. v. pass, deliver, convey, give, transmit. See giving, side, agency, touch. II… …
69near — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not distant in space] Syn. nigh, adjacent, adjoining, proximal, neighboring, not remote, close at hand, proximate, contiguous, handy, near by, hard by, next door to, at close quarters, beside, side by side, in close… …
70hand — 1 noun PART OF THE BODY 1 (C) the part at the end of a person s arm, including the fingers and thumb, used to pick up or keep hold of things: He held the pencil in his right hand. | Go wash your hands. | hold hands: They kissed and held hands. |… …
