hand-held

adjective

1. held in position by the hand

2. (of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots

3. (of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source

noun

1. a computer that can be held in the hand

Example Sentences

Despite the surface Mr. Safdie has designed—hand-held cameras, unglamorous sets, closeups of people in misery—“The Smashing Machine” is notably reluctant to go deep.

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I was invited to go out with Surrey Police on one of their operations targeting drivers using hand-held mobile phones.

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The ball boys and girls were also given cooling scarves, while spectators attempted to shade themselves with hats, umbrellas and even towels, and others cooled themselves with hand-held fans.

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The joy is in the hand-held ease, the one-napkin simplicity and the permission to treat lunch like a soft place to land.

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At each stop, the team donned vinyl gloves and boot coverings to prevent the spread of contamination and collected five evenly spaced samples with a hand-held tool that takes 4-inch soil cores.

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