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mão — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brick noun A hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
  • coat noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
  • deal noun An agreement or arrangement between parties, especially a business one.
  • finger noun One of the five slender parts extending from the hand, used for touching, holding, and grasping.
  • hand noun The part of the body at the end of the arm, used for grasping and manipulating objects.
  • handball noun A team sport in which players throw and bounce a ball, trying to score by throwing it into the opposing goal.

Senses

mão is used for these senses in English:

  • brick (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
  • coat (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.
  • deal (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • finger (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
  • hand That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
  • hand A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
  • handball (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
  • headstock The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.

brick — full definition

  1. noun A hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
  2. noun Slang: an electronic device that has stopped working entirely, especially after a failed update.
  3. noun Slang: a compact block-shaped unit of something, such as a kilogram of a drug or an external power adapter.
  4. verb To ruin an electronic device so badly that it becomes permanently unusable.
  5. verb To build or line something with bricks.

coat — full definition

  1. noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
  2. noun A layer of a substance, such as paint, covering a surface.
  3. noun The fur or hair covering an animal.
  4. verb To cover something with a layer of a substance.

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