to hand off
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4.3
- phrasal verb
- /hænd ɔf/
- Specialized
:
transferir a
- And then I'd love to hand the mic off because I'm.
Examples
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I'm going to hand off to Maya at this point and look forward to your questions and comments.
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On the other hand, the wipe 'em off the map mentality isn't likely to get us very far, even though we seem to be more and more like the Palestinians.
Blog text (4) -
The Center will hand off Global two in three minutes.
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It's going to allow us to find out how much space was given to the grid, which we're then going to hand off to these guys.
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And what would happen is you would hand off a synopsis to the publisher, OK.
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Faulk was such a valuable member of the Greatest Show years because he forced defenses to prepare for the hand-off, the deep ball, and the short pass that was disguised as a run.
Blog text (8) -
There was a hands-off protocol to the process, a street ethic that emphasized honor among perverts, and except for a couple of would-be gropers, Jan encountered no dangers worth troubling about.
Fiction book (2001) -
It points to the "something else" being something that the Romney/Ryan/Rove campaign didn't want independent testers to find, such as another layer of ORCA that was designed to interact with vote totals as they were being handed off from machine X to machine Y, for example by routing them through machine Q on the way from X to Y.
Blog text (28) -
When you move out of a cell tower's range, your call will automatically hand off to the nearest tower without dropping.
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The system is designed to hand off active data sessions smoothly to ensure continuous service during a call.
Synonyms
296
2.8
Give something to someone because you have to
How Continuous
931
3.1
- Specialized
1
4.3
- Specialized
233
2.5
∞
3.1
909
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of transferring or passing something on is directly derivable from 'hand' (to give or pass) combined with 'off' (away/to another), so the telecom meaning of transferring a call follows the same compositional logic. This verb+particle pattern is common and cross-linguistically recognizable, making the meaning predictable for a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Hand off comes from the same picture in technology: your call or data is passed from one tower to another like a thing being handed from one hand to the next off. That's why in networks it means 'to transfer' an active connection so the service keeps working.