hand-held

adjective

held in position by the hand
(of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots
(of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source

noun

a computer that can be held in the hand

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The ball boys and girls were also given cooling scarves, while spectators attempted to shade themselves with hats, umbrellas and even towels, and others cooled themselves with hand-held fans.

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The joy is in the hand-held ease, the one-napkin simplicity and the permission to treat lunch like a soft place to land.

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At each stop, the team donned vinyl gloves and boot coverings to prevent the spread of contamination and collected five evenly spaced samples with a hand-held tool that takes 4-inch soil cores.

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That immersive approach is apparent in the jarring, hand-held footage capturing one of the war’s first firefights and in numerous memorable stories.

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The team surveyed bee communities in 19 mainly disused quarries in the Göttingen region using hand-held nets.

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