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handheld

or hand-held

[ hand-held ]

adjective

  1. held in the hand or hands:

    a handheld torch.

  2. small enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands:

    a handheld hair drier.



noun

  1. something small enough to be used or operated while held in the hand or hands:

    She traded in her bulky old movie camera for a handheld.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of handheld1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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It came hot off the heels of the DS, the best-selling handheld in history, with fans seemingly desperate for an upgrade.

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It can be detected using handheld gas sensors like the ones used by the community researchers.

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That’s televisions, not handheld devices or computers — which one would assume drives that number a lot higher.

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Disney also offers sign language interpreters, wheelchair and scooter rentals, assistive handheld captioning and video captioning on some rides, and dialogue and narration of scripts on others.

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“It’s very Jacques Audiard to film dialogue scenes with handheld cameras. He likes to bring movement and accident to something that wouldn’t have them if shot on a tripod or dolly.”

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