handshake (redirected from Shake the hand)

hand·shake  (hndshk)

n.

1. The grasping of hands by two people, as in greeting or leave-taking.

2. Computer Science An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.

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handshake [ˈhændˌʃeɪk]

n

the act of grasping and shaking a person's hand, as when being introduced or agreeing on a deal

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Handshake 

1. A grip like a trash compactor —Jonathan Valin
2. A grip like a weightlifter —Harvey Swados
3. Grip like iron —Walker Percy
4. A grip like pincers —Gerald Kersh
5. Hand gripped like bird claws —Wallace Stegner
6. (Your) hand grips mine like a railing on an icy night —Adrienne Rich
7. Hand … pumping at mine as if he expected my fingertips to squirt milk or something —T. Coraghessan Boyle
8. Handshake like a bite —Leonard Michaels
9. Handshake like cold, cooked spaghetti —Mark Singer
10. Her hand was limp as a dead carp —Jay Parini
11. His fingers pressed my hand like pieces of wood —Aharon Megged
12. Shook hands … like competitors before a match of some kind —Ross Macdonald
13. Shook hands like strangers —John Dos Passos
14. Took it (the hand) cautiously, as if he were picking up a loathsome object preparatory to dropping it in the trash basket —Evan Hunter
15. (She) took Jim’s soft fingers and held them closely, until he felt that they had been drawn into a mangle —Frank Swinnerton

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

handshake - grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) handclasp, handshaking, shake contract - a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law acknowledgement, acknowledgment - a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment"; "the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her"

Translations

handshake [ˈhændʃeɪk] N → apretón m de manos (Comput) → coloquio m; (as data signal) → "acuse de recibo"
she had a firm or strong handshake → estrechaba la mano con fuerza
she had a weak handshake → estrechaba la mano muy débilmente

handshake [ˈhændʃeɪk] n

(between people) → poignée f de main

(COMPUTING) → établissement m de liaison, établissement m de connexion
hands-off [ˌhændzˈɒf] adj [policy] → de non-intervention

handshake

n

→ Händedruck m

(Comput) → Handshake m, → Quittungsaustausch m

handshake [ˈhændˌʃeɪk] n → stretta di mano