handle

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ long, short

▪ carrying

▪ The table folds up and comes complete with a carrying handle.

▪ door

▪ broom, fork, knife, pickaxe/pickax, etc.

▪ brass, metal, wooden, etc.

VERB + HANDLE

▪ have

▪ pull, push, try, turn

▪ You have to turn the handle and then pull it.

▪ He tried the handle but the door was locked.

▪ grasp, grip

PREPOSITION

▪ on a/the handle

▪ His initials were on the knife handle.
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verb

1 touch sth with your hands

ADVERB

▪ carefully, with care

▪ A label on the crate read: ‘Handle with care’.

▪ carelessly

▪ Gardening tools can be hazardous if carelessly handled.

▪ roughly

▪ Many of the prisoners were roughly handled; some were killed.

2 deal with sb/sth

ADVERB

▪ competently, efficiently, properly, skilfully/skillfully, successfully, well

▪ I think you handled that situation very well.

▪ badly

▪ carefully, delicately

▪ This issue may need to be handled carefully.

▪ easily

▪ Her next question was not so easily handled.

▪ routinely

▪ The library routinely handles a wide variety of queries.

VERB + HANDLE

▪ be able to, be unable to, can, know how to

▪ This was a problem that I just couldn't handle.

▪ She knew how to handle publicity.

▪ be designed to, be equipped to

▪ He wasn't mentally equipped to handle this situation.

▪ learn how to

▪ be easy to

▪ be difficult to, be hard to

▪ Large meetings are more difficult to handle.

PREPOSITION

▪ with

▪ She handled the crisis with total assurance.

Handle is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bureau

Handle is used with these nouns as the object: ↑affair, ↑ball, ↑business, ↑call, ↑cargo, ↑case, ↑challenge, ↑chore, ↑complaint, ↑complexity, ↑conflict, ↑correspondence, ↑crisis, ↑criticism, ↑data, ↑demand, ↑detail, ↑disagreement, ↑disappointment, ↑disaster, ↑dispute, ↑distribution, ↑divorce, ↑duty, ↑economy, ↑emergency, ↑emotion, ↑enquiry, ↑finance, ↑firearm, ↑food, ↑freight, ↑gun, ↑horse, ↑incident, ↑influx, ↑job, ↑liquor, ↑load, ↑mail, ↑management, ↑matter, ↑negotiation, ↑paperwork, ↑pressure, ↑problem, ↑query, ↑rejection, ↑relationship, ↑request, ↑responsibility, ↑rigour, ↑role, ↑situation, ↑stress, ↑task, ↑text, ↑thing, ↑traffic, ↑transaction, ↑truth, ↑waste, ↑workload

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Synonyms:

Touch, feel, feel of, take in the hand, take hold of, Haft, stock, helve / Manage, use, wield, Bail / Treat, discuss, discourse on, treat of / Deal with, manage

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handle — vb 1 Handle, manipulate, wield, swing, ply are comparable when they mean to deal with or manage with or as if with the hands typically in an easy, skillful, or dexterous manner. Handle implies the acquirement of skill sufficient to accomplish one … New Dictionary of Synonyms
handle — [han′dəl] n. [ME handil < OE handle (akin to Du handel) < hand, HAND] 1. that part of a utensil, tool, etc. which is to be held, turned, lifted, pulled, etc. with the hand 2. a thing like a handle in appearance or use 3. the total amount of … English World dictionary
Handle — Han dle (h[a^]n d l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Handled} ( d ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Handling} ( dl[i^]ng).] [OE. handlen, AS. handlian; akin to D. handelen to trade, G. handeln. See {Hand}.] 1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Handle — may be:* Handle (grip), a grip attached to an object for using or moving the object * Handle (mathematics), a topological ball * Handle (computing), a particular kind of smart pointer Handle may also be:* Handle System, a system for uniquely… … Wikipedia
handle — [n1] something to grip arm, bail, crank, ear, grasp, haft, handgrip, helve, hilt, hold, holder, knob, shaft, stem, stock, tiller; concepts 445,502,831 handle [n2] nickname appellation, byname, byword, cognomen, denomination, designation, moniker … New thesaurus
Handle — Han dle, n. [AS. handle. See {Hand}.] 1. That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. That of which use is made;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
handle — ► VERB 1) feel or manipulate with the hands. 2) manage or cope with. 3) deal with. 4) control or manage commercially. 5) (handle oneself) conduct oneself. 6) (of a vehicle) respond in a specified way when being driven: the new model does not… … English terms dictionary
Handle — Han dle (h[a^]n d l), v. i. To use the hands. [1913 Webster] They have hands, but they handle not. Ps. cxv. 7. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
handle — I (manage) verb administer, be master of, command, conduct, control, deal with, direct, dominate, execute, exercise authority, exercise direction over, exeicise power over, exert authority, govern, guide, have authority, have charge of, have the… … Law dictionary
Handle Me — Infobox Single Name = Handle Me Artist = Robyn from Album = Robyn Released = flagicon|Sweden 2005 (Promo only) flagicon|Ireland 26 October, 2007 flagicon|United Kingdom 29 October, 2007 flagicon|Germany March 7, 2008… … Wikipedia
handle — An informal name for the portion of a security s price that is comprised of the numbers to the left of the decimal point, colon, or dash. For example, if a bond s price is 103.25, its handle is 103. Sometimes brokers and dealers only quote the… … Financial and business terms

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