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Meanings of hand-held in English

Small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands.

Usage of hand-held in English
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I grabbed a hand-held shredder and carefully set it for lowest power.
The Andalite Chronicles
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The Argentine delegation had a hand-held camera with them, the source said.
Reuters
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Soon he had a small video camera attached to a hand-held monitor.
Jurassic Park
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She glanced at her hand-held module: still no indication of Rift energies.
Skypoint
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Rinse and grate zucchini using the large holes on a hand-held grater.
97 orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one ...
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A crewman dashed to fetch a hand-held radio and photographed the journalists.
Reuters
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Take off the heat, then purée the soup using a hand-held blender.
The Guardian
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Jason reached down and picked up the hand-held radio from the sill.
The bourne ultimatum
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The incessant jerkiness of the hand-held camera also becomes wearisome after awhile.
Reuters
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It's a hand-held device, but much too bulky to be a calculator.
Snow Crash
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In the movies, people actually kill other people with hand-held rapid-fire weapons.
The drawing of the three
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Twenty years ago the world's first hand-held computer rolled off the production lines.
The Irish Times
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He noticed that his customers often carried their groceries in heavy, hand-held baskets.
Wired
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As they worked, other masked protesters used hand-held telescopes to track police movements.
Reuters
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Objectives: The latest development in echocardiography is the hand-held ultrasound device.
Pubmed
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The company has also developed a hand-held wind sensor called the Racer's Edge.
Reuters