handheld
or hand-held
held in the hand or hands: a handheld torch.
small enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands: a handheld hair drier.
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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How to use handheld in a sentence
While the chocolate and butter are melting, in a medium bowl, using a whisk or handheld mixer on medium-high, beat together the egg, yolk and sugar until light, thick and pale yellow.
If loving a piping hot chocolate lava cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right | Becky Krystal | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostOriginally developed to aid military personnel during the Second World War, walkie-talkies are handheld portable radios that work off single frequency wireless signals to broadcast messages miles away.
Receive and transmit clear messages with these reliable walkie-talkies | PopSci Commerce Team | January 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOnce detached, it can be used as a handheld, often with additional heads or attachments.
Best cordless vacuum: Suck up debris without getting yourself tangled | Charlotte Marcus | January 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn many cases, you’ll find you’re getting extra bang for your buck as sticks are the type of cleaner that most readily can be converted to a handheld, ideal if you want to clean the car or deep-clean the sofa.
It came together in a matter of moments to create a tasty handheld meal.
TikTok’s tortilla trend is basically a quesadilla — with extra fun folded in | Aaron Hutcherson | January 14, 2021 | Washington Post
The joint venture entails Corgenix migrating the rapid diagnostic tests into a handheld device designed by Nanomix.
This New Ebola Test Is As Easy As a Pregnancy Test, So Why Aren’t We Using It? | Abby Haglage | October 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“I stopped and yelled on my handheld radio for help,” the affidavit reports.
The Muslim Convert Behind America’s First Workplace Beheading | Michael Daly | September 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe market for handheld devices is now crowded with competitors.
The Army wants a handheld directed-energy weapon that is capable of both inflicting pain or using lethal force.
The tough part may be making such a device small enough to be handheld.
If readers have difficulty seeing them on mobile or handheld devices, they are available as text in the .
Subscripted and superscripted characters do not always display correctly on handheld devices.
Symbols representing male and female have been replaced by M and F in the handheld version.
In addition, for handheld devices, gesperrt within the text was replaced with bold font.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4) | Francis Maitland BalfourIn some handheld devices, the font for definitions may appear in bold.
The New Forest | Elizabeth Godfrey
British Dictionary definitions for hand-held
held in position by the hand
(of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots
(of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source
a computer that can be held in the hand
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