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handling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun handling has 3 senses
- handling(n = noun.act) Array - manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something; Array is a kind of manual labor, manual labour
- handling(n = noun.act) manipulation - the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means; Array is a kind of touch, touching
- handling(n = noun.act) treatment - 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" is a kind of direction, management
has particulars: materials handling, loading, unloading
has particulars: fielding
Derived form verb handle4
has particulars: bioremediation, dealing
Derived form verb handle1
CIDE DICTIONARY
handling, n. [AS. handlung.].
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle,
v. t. [1913 Webster]"The heavens and your fair handling
Have made you master of the field this day." [1913 Webster] - The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
handling
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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