sweep hand

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [sweep hand]
- /swip hænd/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [sweep hand]
- /swip hænd/

Definitions of sweep hand words

noun sweep hand a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial. 1
noun sweep hand a long hand that registers seconds or fractions of seconds on the perimeter of the dial 0
noun sweep hand second hand (sense 1) 0

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Origin of sweep hand

First appearance:

before 1940

One of the 7% newest English words

First recorded in 1940-45

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Parts of speech for Sweep hand

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Sweep hand

sweep hand popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

sweep hand usage trend in Literature

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