handshake
握手,握手言和,握手礼,握手会
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- : 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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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 of trusty friendship and deep affection.