ON ONE HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on one hand mean? 

• ON ONE HAND (adverb)
  The adverb ON ONE HAND has 1 sense:

1. from one point of view

  Familiarity information: ON ONE HAND used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON ONE HAND (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From one point of view

Synonyms:

on one hand; on the one hand

Context example:

on the one hand, she is a gifted chemist

 Context examples 

On one hand, Saturn and Pluto will oppose the moon, a testament to the force that a VIP may be applying toward you that seems unfair.

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He laid it between us on the table; and, with his chin resting on one hand, tracked his course upon it with the other.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On one hand, it browns the white subcutaneous fat and turns it into beige fat, thus creating more tissue that turns fat into energy rather than storing it.

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It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)