HAND OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hand out mean? 

• HAND OUT (verb)
  The verb HAND OUT has 1 sense:

1. give to several people

  Familiarity information: HAND OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAND OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give to several people

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

distribute; give out; hand out; pass out

Context example:

The teacher handed out the exams

Hypernyms (to "hand out" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hand out"):

apportion; deal; divvy up; portion out; share (give out as one's portion or share)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

Again he stretched his hand out to the romance, and again came that roguish burst of merriment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"By Jove, she's forgotten her dinner!" cried the unconscious youth, poking the scarlet monster into its place with his cane, and preparing to hand out the basket after the old lady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Strolling across to the post, he tied his blue bird’s-eye handkerchief over the west-countryman’s yellow, and then walked to his opponent with his hand out.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he stretched his hand out to be led.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maud was leaning against the wall, one hand out for support; but he was staggering, his left hand pressed against his forehead and covering his eyes, and with the right he was groping about him in a dazed sort of way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But when he entered, and stood before me with his hand out, the darkness that had fallen on him changed to light, and I felt confounded and ashamed of having doubted one I loved so heartily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saw her stealthily open the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to where he stood hid behind the curtain.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Where a good man can always earn a good wage, and where he need look upon no man as his paymaster, but just reach his hand out and help himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She leaned her forehead on the cool pane, and stood half hidden by the curtains, never minding that her favorite waltz had begun, till some one touched her, and turning, she saw Laurie, looking penitent, as he said, with his very best bow and his hand out... Please forgive my rudeness, and come and dance with me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)