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handshake

/hand-sheyk/US // ˈhændˌʃeɪk //UK // (ˈhændˌʃeɪk) //

握手,握手言和,握手礼,握手会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
    • : Also handshaking. Computers. an exchange of predetermined signals between a computer and a peripheral device or another computer, made when a connection is initially established or at intervals during data transmission, in order to assure proper synchronization.

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Examples

  • An email newsletter is a great digital handshake between a consumer and a publisher….

  • Butler and Wise still perform a handshake that ends with them pretending to shoot a Kamehameha wave at each other.

  • Their value is a product of digital handshakes over millions of transactions firming up that consensus.

  • I was warned by other midshipmen that I would fail on the spot if I initiated a handshake.

  • It is the shop clerk’s smile, the salesman’s hearty handshake, because the audience now is a customer base, and the customer is always right.

  • She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp.

  • George offers a firm handshake and stays present with each fan for the moment or two that they have his attention.

  • Forget matters strategic, you may say; banish from your head all thoughts of a military or security handshake.

  • “Get your act together,” we said real manfully like, eye to eye, with a firm handshake.

  • Case in point: the TV deals they had completed for the two previous seasons had been done via handshake.

  • He stretched out a hand in silence and gave me a hearty handshake; and I shook the reins and thundered up the road to Staunton.

  • They exchanged the hearty, lingering handshake of trusty friendship and deep affection.

  • As far as sentiments go, the cable is by chalks the heartiest handshake we poor relations to the West have had since we started.

  • They have a nodding-from-a-motor-acquaintance with it but I like a real handshake-friendship with it.

  • There was nothing of genuine American heartiness in the handshake he gave Frank.