hands-on
characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
requiring manual operation, control, adjustment, or the like; not automatic or computerized: the old hands-on telephone switchboards.
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How to use hands-on in a sentence
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGiven that crucial importance, The Macallan is famously hands-on when it comes to its wooden barrels.
For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
Adelson is known for being a hands-on donor who makes decisions carefully.
Casino Tycoon Sheldon Adelson Takes $100 Million Gamble on GOP Senate | Peter Stone | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe “hands-on” laboratory allows visitors to use some of the technology, including being three-dimensionally scanned and printed.
Art Goes High-Tech at These Four Innovative Exhibits | Justin Jones | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done.
British Dictionary definitions for hands-on
involving practical experience of equipment, etc: hands-on training in the use of computers
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