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▪ I. ˈhandshake, n.
a. A shake of the hand: cf.
1873Tristram Moab xviii. 344, I gave him a hearty hand⁓shake. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 130 Let me return your handshake!
b. A gift of money.
1960, etc. [see golden handshake]. 1968Times 3 July 26/6 (headline) Dockers told of handshake. Ibid., An offer of bigger ‘golden handshakes’. 1971Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 649/2 (Advt.), However you invest with the United, you get a handsome handshake.
Add:c. Computing. An exchange of standardized signals between communicating devices in a network or on a bus, used to regulate the transfer of data between them, esp. to control the start or end of transmission; the signal used for this purpose.
1966Proc. AFIPS Conf. XXIX. 398/2 After a sufficient time is allowed for completion of a ‘handshake’ between Data Sets (about 10 seconds), the Data Set is checked for ‘Carrier On’. 1973Davies & Barber Communication Networks for Computers vi. 178 The word ‘handshake’ has become widely used to refer generally to controlled transfers of information of all kinds. 1975Physics Bull. Sept. 408/3 A digital output means that the data can be analysed by a computer or stored by means of a synchronous or ‘handshake’ data transfer. 1983MicroComputer Printout Sept. 72/1 The end of a transaction is always signified by an electronic signal called a handshake. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 192/2 With suitable buffering of the signal levels, the data in, data out and handshake lines (such as Clear To Send and Request To Send) can be connected to a pair of wires which will form the basic network.
▪ II. handshake, v.|ˈhændʃeɪk|
[Back-formation from hand-shaking.]
intr. To shake hands. So ˈhandˌshaker.
1898H. James Two Magics 8 We handshook and ‘candlestuck’, as somebody said, and went to bed. 1905Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 12/1 As the line moves forward each hand-shaker is steadily pushed along. 1928Daily Express 28 Aug. 8/3 Hearty handshakers. 1940Amer. Speech XV. 211/2 Those who try to get promotions by pull with officers are called handshakers or suction kids. 1964G. B. Schaller Year of Gorilla x. 240 The Belgians are the most confirmed handshakers I have ever met. |