Find the word definition

Crossword clues for hands-on

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hands-on
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
▪ There is, however, nothing like hands-on experience to create shifts of mind and heart.
▪ Summing up, I can state categorically that there is no substitute for hands-on experience.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mr. Garvey is known as a hands-on manager with an in-depth knowldege of the whole company.
▪ The exhibit includes numerous hands-on activities, including several archaeological dig stations.
▪ The program gives students hands-on experience in a hospital.
▪ The training programs give students practical hands-on experience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He still enjoyed the hands-on side of mechanics and had enjoyed assisting in the training of apprentices.
▪ It offers kids a behind-the-scenes, hands-on view of theater and regular interactive programs.
▪ She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience.
▪ Students also said they liked the hands-on activities and felt these would help them in the world outside school.
▪ There is, however, nothing like hands-on experience to create shifts of mind and heart.
▪ They require skilled, hands-on commitment at the top.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hands-on

also hands on, as an adjective, by 1969.

Wiktionary
hands-on

a. involving active participation

WordNet
hands-on

adj. involving active participation; "he's a hands-on manager"; "hands-on operations"

Wikipedia
Hands-on

"Hands-on" refers to human interaction, often with technology. It implies active participation in a direct and practical way.

Hands-on or Hands-On may refer to:

  • Hands-on computing, a branch of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) research
  • Hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS)
  • Hands-On Electronics magazine
  • Hands-On Mobile company
  • Global Hands-On Universe project

Usage examples of "hands-on".

The truly advanced ayurvedic healer will hire the hands-on help for minimum wage, leaving him- or herself free to sit back in their office and study the Gitas at leisure.

But the regs say that any world holding life bigger than a bacterium and more complex than a coelenterate requires at least one hands-on survey by a visiting ship.

In light of the bloodiness of the crime, its hands-on physicality, and the number of victims and defendants, the discovery of a few mass-produced fibers from items available in Wal-Marts and other clothiers all over the country struck Lax as an infinitesimal amount of evidence, which was also highly circumstantial.

For three hands-on murders, one of which involved a castration, the fibers amounted to very bare threads of evidence.

Like all hackers, he prefers his involvements direct, personal, and hands-on.

I knew anything about was the training of racehorses, and that only from observation, not from hands-on experience.

His hands-on experience was total, he had to learn simply to survive, and he had nothing else to do but learn, sit passively and absorb the bytes flowing through the country's datanets, day after day after day.

The general feels that the best use of his attention involves more of a hands-on focus with CID, so, other than the time-honored passing of canapés, that's where I'm likely to be spending most of my time.

She has co-written four books of hands-on science activities for children for the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco.

She could do with some hands-on mining experience to round out her education in asteroid extraction techniques.

They set aside all thought of using a rental car solely because they did not want the distraction of hands-on driving to eat into precious plotting time.

To be good at being a billionaire you must get enjoyment from amassing wealth or, if you're a hands-on billionaire, hiring and firing people, juggling companies and inventories and financial instruments and banks and politicians.

The APC had more carrying capacity than the little liferaft, and using it provided hands-on experience in a leisured environment.

According to the rumors Higgins had picked up, she favored a hands-on style, very different from the remote spymaster approach, with multiple layers of cutouts, others in her line of work preferred.

She concluded by saying that no one who'd been quarantined had come down with the illness unless they had previously had direct, hands-on contact with someone already ill.