Meaning of HANDLING
| Pronunciation: | | 'handling
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- [n] the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands
- [n] manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
- [n] the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
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| | Synonyms: | | manipulation, treatment |
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| | See Also: | | bioremediation, dealing, direction, fielding, loading, management, manual labor, manual labour, materials handling, short shrift, touch, touching, unloading | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Han"dling\, n. [AS. handlung.]
1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the
hand or hands, or as with the hands. See {Handle}, v. t.
The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
master of the field this day. --Spenser.
2. (Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or
brush, etc.; style of touch. --Fairholt.
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplishment, achievement, action, administration, agency, authority, care, caressing, charge, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, custodianship, direction, discharge, dispatch, driving, effectuation, employment, enactment, execution, exercise, exploitation, feeling, fingering, friction, frottage, functioning, governance, government, guidance, husbandry, implementation, intendance, lead, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, means of dealing, occupation, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palpation, performance, performing, perpetration, petting, pilotage, practice, pressure, regulation, responsibility, rubbing, running, steerage, steering, stewardship, stroking, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, transaction, treatment, usage, using, utilization, work, working, workings |
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