- handshake
- noun Date: 1871 a clasping usually of right hands by two people (as in greeting or farewell)
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handshake — hand‧shake [ˈhændʆeɪk] noun [countable] 1. HUMAN RESOURCES another name for golden handshake 2. COMPUTING when one computer gives information to another computer, telling it that a connection has been made: • You will get a handsha … Financial and business terms
handshake — (n.) 1801, from HAND (Cf. hand) (n.) + SHAKE (Cf. shake) (n.). Hand shaking is attested from 1805 … Etymology dictionary
handshake — ► NOUN ▪ an act of shaking a person s hand. DERIVATIVES handshaking noun … English terms dictionary
handshake — [hand′shāk΄] n. a gripping and shaking of each other s hand in greeting, farewell, agreement, etc … English World dictionary
Handshake — For the telecommunications concept, see Handshaking. Two men shaking hands A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other s like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up and down movement of the grasped hands … Wikipedia
handshake — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ firm, hearty (esp. AmE) ▪ limp ▪ She wasn t impressed by his limp handshake. ▪ secret ▪ golden … Collocations dictionary
Handshake — Mit Datenflusskontrolle (engl. data flow control) oder Datenflusssteuerung werden unterschiedliche Verfahren bezeichnet, mit denen die Datenübertragung von Endgeräten an einem Datennetz, die nicht synchron arbeiten, so gesteuert wird, dass eine… … Deutsch Wikipedia
handshake — [[t]hæ̱ndʃeɪk[/t]] handshakes N COUNT If you give someone a handshake, you take their right hand with your own right hand and hold it firmly or move it up and down, as a sign of greeting or to show that you have agreed about something such as a… … English dictionary
handshake — n. 1) a firm; warm handshake 2) (misc.) a golden handshake ( a gift presented to smb. who is retiring ) * * * [ hændʃeɪk] warmhandshake a firm (misc.) a golden handshake ( a gift presented to smb. who is retiring ) … Combinatory dictionary
handshake — hand|shake [ˈhændʃeık] n 1.) the act of taking someone s right hand and shaking it, which people do when they meet or leave each other or when they have made an agreement ▪ He greeted me with a handshake and a glass of wine. ▪ Her handshake was… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Handshake — Hand|shake 〈[ hæ̣ndʃɛık] m. 6〉 1. Händeschütteln (als offizielle Begrüßungs od. Abschiedszeremonie) 2. 〈EDV〉 Austausch von Signalen zw. Computern, der anzeigt, dass eine Verbindung besteht bzw. eine Kommunikation möglich ist ● die… … Universal-Lexikon
