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Handle   /hˈændəl/   Listen
Handle

verb
(past & past part. handled; pres. part. handling)
1.
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.  Synonyms: care, deal, manage.  "This blender can't handle nuts" , "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
2.
Interact in a certain way.  Synonyms: do by, treat.  "Treat him with caution, please" , "Handle the press reporters gently"
3.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
4.
Touch, lift, or hold with the hands.  Synonym: palm.
5.
Handle effectively.  Synonyms: manage, wield.  "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well"
6.
Show and train.
noun
1.
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.  Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold.  "It was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"



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"Handle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bailey, unexpectedly prompt. "I've met one man who knows how to handle this factory better than I do, and I've been at it twelve years. And there he is—" he turned in his revolving chair and rolled up the shade covering the glass-set door into the ...
— The Flying Mercury • Eleanor M. Ingram

... I said, 'directly she has gone off to sleep, you must force her mouth open, and put the handle of your dagger between her teeth. It will not hurt her at all. But I cannot get at the tooth unless the mouth is open, and we cannot open it until she is asleep, for the whole side of her face is swollen, and the ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty

... Master of the Mint to the King of Poland, and reputed a great Master in the Mechanicks) hath perform'd in Diopticks? Whether at present he employs himself, as is related, in grinding a Telescope of 120 foot long? And, if so, what way he means to make use {345} of, commodiously to handle a Tube of ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various

... little faster—still upon his knees—his head still twisted over his shoulder 'thrawn' in terror of Sandie and the accusing corpse. He reached the door, groped for the handle, opened it, then shambled to his feet, passed through the outer door, and ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease

... Movements, and Nature of the Motor Impulse.—Whatever may be the means of movement, the exterior tentacles, considering their delicacy, are inflected with much force. A bristle, held so that a length of 1 inch projected from a handle, yielded when I tried to lift with it an inflected tentacle, which was somewhat thinner than the bristle. The amount or extent, also, of the movement is great. Fully expanded tentacles in becoming inflected sweep through an ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin


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