单词 | handprint |
释义 | handprintn. An impression or mark made on a surface by the palm and the inside of the hand. Also: a representation of a hand. Cf. fingerprint n., palm print n. at palm n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > hand-print handprint1831 palm print1908 1831 Country Times 14 Feb. 53/2 His hands were found severely lacerated, and this circumstance at once accounts for the bloody hand-prints. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 222 Hand-prints and drawings of animals. 1879 Biblical Things not generally Known 229 A rough representation of a hand being always made by native masons... This hand-print is made in order to avert the ‘evil eye’. 1931 Sci. News-let. 8 Aug. 83 Anthropologists..are finding finger prints and hand prints and foot prints useful in identifying human beings. 1978 Pop. Sci. Sept. 188/3 Prefinished hardboard..to protect against the kids' scuffing and handprints. 2005 C. Mann 1491 iii. ix. 297 They..painted handprints on the walls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : hand-printv. < n.1831 see also |
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