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handprint

handprint

24 2.5
A mark left by a hand pressed on a surface showing its shape
  • noun
  • /ˈhændprɪnt/
translation icon : huella de mano
  • After the party, there was a colorful handprint on the wall, showing where the kids had fun playing.
  • bloody handprint
  • red handprint
  • leave a handprint

They got rusted handprints from bloody hands touching it.

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Examples

  • This one I had made when Caleb was just three weeks old, and they put his little handprint on the side of it.

  • We made a special card using my daughter's handprint to celebrate her birthday.

  • There was, like, a handprint on the wall.

  • We are going to paint our hands and then put our handprint on our car.

  • For my birthday, my son gave me a handprint.

  • The only clue to what happened was a muddy handprint on the side of the tent.

  • Tammy's kids are taking turns making handprints on the bus window.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I found a baked-clay saucer with a tiny handprint pressed into it, and "Johnny 1968" scratched on the back.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The camera points to several pairs of child's handprints in the sidewalk, then back to Andrew in close-up, smiling.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The artist pressed her palm onto the canvas, leaving a unique handprint as part of her masterpiece.

Synonyms

print
vshandprint
419 2.0

A mark left on a surface by a hand, foot, or paw

is a mark made specifically by a human palm rather than any object
impression
vshandprint
  • Specialized
52 4.1

A mark left on a surface when something presses into it

focuses on a mark showing a human palm shape rather than general indentations
imprint
vshandprint
22 4.2

A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it

is limited to marks made by a human palm, not tools or devices

Antonyms

216 2.1

A lack of someone or something that should be there

How Clear

handprint
24 2.5
impression
  • Specialized
52 4.1
streak
45 2.6
mark
468 1.0
smear
14 4.1

Surface Forms

handprint singular
handprints plural

Morphology

handprint = hand + print (transparent) = hand + print

Direct compound of the concrete nouns 'hand' and 'print' meaning an impression made by a hand; the meaning is directly predictable from its parts.

Etymology

Handprint is simply made from hand and print, where print means a 'mark' left when you press something. So a handprint is the mark your hand makes when you press it onto a surface.