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handling
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands [syn: manipulation ] the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handling \Han"dling\ (h[a^]n"dl[i^]ng), n. [AS. handlung.] 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. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English handlung "action of touching or feeling," from handlian (see handle (v.)). Meaning "way in which something handles" (especially a motor vehicle) is from 1962.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES handling charge shipping and handling ▪ The jewelry can be yours for $15 plus shipping and handling . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE careful ▪ Ensuring that patients participating in drug trials give fully informed ...
Usage examples of handling.
Sensing that she might be the victim of politics in the New York office, the judge handling the Day of Terror case had reportedly ordered that agents from outside New York investigate.
DSS agents in country typically had the best feel for handling foreign nationals.
On June 11, CIA case officers met with agents of the JTTF in New York who were handling the Cole investigation.
UIA reports arrived month after month, endlessly piling confusion upon confusion as his three distant enemies across the sea laughed and joked and dealt the cards that spun out their game over the years in the eternal city, as Nubar brooded over hearsay and hints and shadowy allegations in his castle tower in Albania, safe and far away as he wanted to be, as indeed he had to be so great was his fear of the conflicting clues of the Old City that rose above time and the desert, at home in his castle tower safely handling charts and numbers to his satisfaction, safely arranging concepts.
It would be wise for you to show the Project Council and Administrator Alim that you are capable of handling this potential source of trouble.
The police posted a guard on the highway, in case the Angels got restless and tried to get back to town, but there was no way to seal the camp off entirely, nor any provision for handling local innocents who might be drawn to the scene out of curiosity or other, darker reasons not mentioned in police training manuals.
Kelly trusted him to do a dry run for a transition approach on the computer, with Noguchi handling the tables and Kelly substituting for the astrogator by following records of the actual transition the ship had last made.
They would do fine, handling detection chores for the entire company during this lull while the autochthones regrouped and licked their wounds.
Although he had voted against Barnett, Chooky Falkner was politically conservative and like many of his men and many white Mississippians, he strongly opposed the way the federal government was handling the Meredith case.
An Ulan Bator handling agent retrieves the stack, and, for a hefty bribe, makes a copy.
How long would it take, do you suppose, for you to become a Metallurgist capable of handling a Beeman machine, supposing you started from nothing and did not use Educational tapes?
While the other bees could be stored and fed in boxes, the queens needed special handling.
Kit noted fridges for storing samples, biosafety cabinets for handling hazardous materials, and a rack of rabbit cages under a clear plastic cover.
Peter and I have been handling this stuff, and this is a Biosafety Level agent, Marburg .
She felt a little shiver, half pleasant, trickle down her spine at the thought of handling the great fierce birds of prey.